All things related to multicast

["Charles R. Anderson" <>]

Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote:
> We are from university of Sao Paulo and we are trying to do a technical
> specification about some border routers.
> 
> The requirements for these routers are related to IPv4 and IPv6
> multicast in a hardware based architecture.
> 
> We would like to know about your experience with equipments ... what are
> the best solutions (hardware based, no CPU load, forwarding capacity
> with services), thinking about 90 Mbps of multicast traffic together
> with IPv4 and IPv6 (25 Mbps) unicast traffic, using POS STM-1
> interfaces, and protocols like PIM-SM, PIM-SSM, MLD, MBGP and MSDP.
> Giuliano

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:06:10PM -0600, Roberts, Michael J. (IATS) wrote:
> We replaced our border router this past summer with a Juniper M20.  I
> can not say enough good things about Juniper.  Their pre-sales and
> post-sales engineering was excellent and their hardware supports IPv4,
> IPv6, unicast and multicast at wire-speed.  Juniper met every
> requirement that we had and then some.  They also support a huge variety
> of interface types.  Email me if you want some more details.
> -mike 

I wholeheartedly concur.  The Juniper is also a joy to configure with
their excellent CLI.  Just be sure that you get a Tunnel PIC or
equivalent to handle PIM encapsulation/decapsulation.