Objectives

To get participants to design and set up a set of inter-connected multicast networks. After having experienced this workshop as a student, an attendee will be able to engineer multicast networks within his/her campus/organization, to explain multicast engineering concepts to peers, and, in some cases, to help teach or facilitate future multicast workshops.

Who should attend?

This is a technical workshop, made up of lectures and hands-on lab work. Open to technical staff and Network Engineer/Administrators who are now or soon will be deploying IPMulticast services on a IP based Internet Service Provider (ISP) network, Enterprise network, Campus network or Internet exchange Point (IXP), for one-to-many and/or many-to-many data/media/NGN distribution services and applications.

Course Contents

This training covers the followings topics:
   - Router Configuration
   - Multicast addressing
   - Protocol Soup
   - IGMP (Internet Group Membership Protocol) used by hosts and routers to tell each other about group membership
   - PIM-SM (Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode) used to propagate forwarding state between routers,
     with both IPv4 and IPv6.
   - SSM (Source Specific Multicast) utilizes a subset of PIM's functionality to guaranty source-only trees in the 232/8
     and FF3x::/32 ranges.
   - MSDP (Multicast Source Discovery Protocol) used to exchange ASM active source information between RPs.
   - Embedded-RP for IPv6 Interdomain ASM.
   - MBGP (Multiprotocol BGP) used to exchange routing information for interdomain RPF checking.

Prerequisite

Cisco IOS Fundamentals; IGP and BGP router configuration basics.

Biography of instructor

Greg Shepherd
Greg has been working with multicast deployments for over 10 years: in R&E networks as an operator, then with Cisco, Juniper, Procket, now back at Cisco. He has given numerous workshops at NANOG, APRICOT, RIPE, AFNOG, SANOG, AIT, as well as directly with customer engineers. Through ISC.org he currently opperates a global multicast peering network.

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John Zwiebel
Joined Cisco in 1993 after building a network used to launch Titan space vehicles. Worked with Dino Farinacci in the development of multicast routing protocols from 1994 through 2001. Joined Procket Networks from 2001 through 2005 again working with Dino on multicast protocols. Returned to Cisco in 2005 to assist in putting PIM and other multicast protocols into NXOS. Now working on OTV and LISP.

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Gaurab Raj Upadhaya
Gaurab's is currently employed as Internet Economics Analyst / Staff Engineer, at Packet Clearing House (www.pch.net), a research non-profit based in Berkeley, California. He is also technical director at Nepal Research and Education Network, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Gaurab's primary work is in Internet backbone operations, analyzing peering relationships between operators and roles of Internet Exchange Points in different parts of Asia. Much of the work involves training ISPs in developing countries about best practices on network operations. He initiated the Nepal Internet Exchange (npIX) and currently serves as its voluntary CEO. In 2003, Gaurab started the South Asian Network Operators Group (SANOG), a non-profit educational event and forum for ISPs in the South Asian Region (www.sanog.org). He is also Programme Committee member of APRICOT, and served as the chair of the committee between 2007 - 2009. He likes travelling, photography and reading books when he is not on the network.