All things related to multicast

["Vietzke, Robert" <>]

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I'm curious if anyone has attempted bringing Abilene multicast routes in
to an MPLS VPN environment and if yes, would you be willing to share
your experience/configs.

We're hoping to bring our Abilene/NOX peer in to a VRF instance and then
be able to ship it around to various connected sites on our State
Education Network in a VPN. The advantages are it looks like 1-hop
routing to the end user, and we get much tighter control of assuring who
routes to where. The down side is multicast inside a MPLS VPN appears to
be ugly.

Rob


Robert P. Vietzke, Network Architect
Connecticut Education Network
Director, CEN Advanced Services Center
University of Connecticut

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