IP Multicast: Advanced Multicast Concepts and Large-Scale Multicast Design, Volume 2 / Edition 1

by Josh Loveless, Raymond Blair, Arvind Durai

Overview

Design, operate, and troubleshoot advanced Cisco IP multicast in enterprise, data center, and service provider networks

IP Multicast, Volume II thoroughly covers advanced IP multicast designs and protocols specific to Cisco routers and switches. It offers a pragmatic discussion of common features, deployment models, and field practices for advanced Cisco IP multicast networks, culminating with commands and methodologies for implementation and advanced troubleshooting.

After fully discussing inter-domain routing and Internet multicast, the authors thoroughly explain multicast scalability, transport diversification, and multicast MPLS VPNs. They share in-depth insights into multicast for the data center, a full chapter of best-practice design solutions, and a start-to-finish troubleshooting methodology designed for complex environments.

Reflecting the authors’ extensive experience with service provider and enterprise networks, IP Multicast, Volume II will be indispensable to IP multicast engineers, architects, operations technicians, consultants, security professionals, and collaboration specialists. Network managers and administrators will find its case studies and feature explanations especially valuable.

• Understand the fundamental requirements for inter-domain multicast
• Design control planes for identifying source and receiver, as well as the downstream control plane
• Support multicast transport where cloud service providers don’t support native multicast
• Use multicast VPNs to logically separate traffic on the same physical infrastructure
• Explore the unique nuances of multicast in the data center
• Implement Virtual Port Channel (vPC), Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN), and Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
• Design multicast solutions for specific industries or applications
• Walk through examples of best-practice multicast deployments
• Master an advanced methodology for troubleshooting large IP multicast networks
  

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587144936
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	03/21/2018
Series:	Networking Technology
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 17.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Josh Loveless, CCIE No. 16638, is a systems engineering manager for Cisco Systems. He has been with Cisco since 2012, providing architecture and support services for tier 1 service providers as well as for many of Cisco’s largest enterprise customers, specializing in large-scale routing and switching designs. Prior to joining Cisco, he spent 15 years working for large service providers and enterprises as both an engineer and an architect, as well as providing training and architecture services to some of Cisco’s trusted partners. Josh maintains two CCIE certifications, Routing and Switching and Service Provider.

Ray Blair, CCIE No. 7050, is a distinguished systems engineer and has been with Cisco Systems since 1999. He uses his years of experience to align technology solutions with business needs to ensure customer success. Ray started his career in 1988, designing industrial monitoring and communication systems. Since that time, he has been involved with server/database administration and the design, implementation, and management of networks that included networking technologies from ATM to ZMODEM. He maintains three CCIE certifications in Routing and Switching, Security, and Service Provider (No. 7050), and he is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and a Certified Business Architect (No. 00298). Ray is coauthor of three Cisco Press books, Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, Tcl Scripting for Cisco IOS, and IP Multicast, Volume 1. He speaks at many industry events and is a Cisco Live distinguished speaker.

Arvind Durai, CCIE No. 7016, is a director of solution integration for Cisco Advanced Services. Arvind is a chief architect for advanced services for the West Enterprise Region, an organization of around 100 consultants focused on customer success for approximately 150 enterprise accounts. Over the past 18 years, Arvind has been responsible for supporting major Cisco customers in the enterprise sector, including financial, retail, manufacturing, e-commerce, state government, utility, and health care sectors. Some of his focuses have been on security, multicast, network virtualization, data center enterprise cloud adoption, automation, and software-defined infrastructure, and he has authored several white papers on various technologies. He has been involved in multicast designs for several enterprise customers in different verticals. He is also one of the contributors to the framework for the Advanced Services Multicast Audit tool, which helps customers assess their operational multicast network to industry best practices. Arvind maintains two CCIE certifications, Routing and Switching and Security, and also is a Certified Business Architect. He holds a bachelor of science degree in electronics and communication, a master’s degree in electrical engineering, and a master’s degree in business administration. He has coauthored four Cisco Press books: Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, Virtual Routing in the Cloud, Tcl Scripting for Cisco IOS, and IP Multicast:, Volume 1. He has also coauthored IEEE WAN smart grid architecture and presented in many industry forums, such as IEEE and Cisco Live.

Table of Contents

Introduction xiv
Chapter 1 Interdomain Routing and Internet Multicast 1
Introduction to Interdomain Multicast 1
What Is a Multicast Domain? A Refresher 6
PIM Domain Design Types 14
Forwarding Between Domains 19
Autonomous System Borders and Multicast BGP 22
Domain Borders and Configured Multicast Boundaries 32
Multicast Source Discovery Protocol 38
Understanding Source Actives (SA) and MSDP Mechanics 47
Configuring and Verifying MSDP 50
Basic MSDP Deployment Use Case 56
Intradomain versus Interdomain Design Models 62
Intra-AS Multidomain Design 62
Inter-AS and Internet Design 72
Protecting Domain Borders and Interdomain Resources 82
Interdomain Multicast Without Active Source Learning 88
Summary 97
References 97
Chapter 2 Multicast Scalability and Transport Diversification 99
Why Is Multicast Not Enabled Natively in a Public Cloud Environment? 99
Enterprise Adoption of Cloud Services 99
Cloud Connectivity to an Enterprise 101
Virtual Services in a Cloud 103
Service Reflection Feature 105
Multicast Traffic Engineering 117
Enabling Multicast to the CSP Use Case 1 132
Enabling Multicast to the CSP Use Case 2 134
Summary 135
Chapter 3 Multicast MPLS VPNs 137
Multicast in an MPLS VPN Network 138
Multicast Distribution Tree (MDT) 139
Default MDT 139
Data MDT 142
Default MDT in Action 148
Multicast LDP (MLDP) 160
FEC Elements 161
In-Band Signaling Operation 162
Out-of-Band (Overlay) Signaling Operation 163
Default MDT MLDP 164
Default MDT MLDP Root High Availability 164
MLDP in Action 165
Profiles 181
Migrating Between Profiles 185
Provider (P) Multicast Transport 186
PE—CE Multicast Routing 186
CE—CE Multicast Routing 187
PE—PE Ingress Replication 187
Multicast Extranet VPNs 192
IPv6 MVPN 202
Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) 202
Summary 205
References 206
Chapter 4 Multicast in Data Center Environments 207
Multicast in a VPC Environment 207
Multicast Flow over a VPC 208
VXLAN 211
VTEP 211
VXLAN Flood and Learn 213
VXLAN with EVPN 216
Host-to-Host Multicast Communication in VXLAN 224
Multicast in ACI Data Center Networks 227
ACI Fabrics and Overlay Elements 229
Layer 2 IGMP Snooping in ACI 231
Layer 3 Multicast in ACI 232
Summary 235
Chapter 5 Multicast Design Solutions 237
Multicast-Enabled Clinical Networks 238
Accommodating Medical Device Communications Through Multicast 240
Multicast Considerations for Wireless Networks 246
Multicast in Multitenant Data Centers 254
ACI Multitenant Multicast 258
Multicast and Software-Defined Networking 260
LISP Map Resolver (MR)/Map Server (MS) 263
LISP PETRs/PITRs 264
LISP and Multicast 265
Multicast in Utility Networks 267
PMU 268
Radio over IP Design 269
Multicast-Enabled Markets 269
Multicast Design in a Market Data Environment 271
FSP Multicast Design 273
Brokerage Multicast Design 273
Service Provider Multicast 274
Service Provider PIM-Type Selection and RP Placement 275
IPTV Delivery over Multicast 279
Summary 282
References 282
Chapter 6 Advanced Multicast Troubleshooting 283
Troubleshooting Interdomain Multicast Networks 285
Troubleshooting PIM with Traffic Engineering 301
Troubleshooting MVPN 314
Verifying Multicast in VXLAN 322
Summary 326
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