IP Multicast P911

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IP Multicast (P911)

• Peter Feil, Deutsche Telekom Berkom GmbHProject
  Leader P911

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History of IP Multicast (IPMC)

• Invented in the late 80s by Steve Deering
• 1992 Start of the MBone (IETF broadcast)
• 1994 First Multicast implementations on routers
• 1998 Useful IPMC inter-domain solutions
  available
• 1999 Commercial take-off of IPMC in the USA
• Future IPMC is a basic functionality of NGI

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Multicast Applications
Multicast is much more than the MBone
File Transfer / Software Distribution / Corporate
Data Distribution
Distance Learning / Corporate Communication
Real-time Financial und News Streaming
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Customer Expectations

• Cost-efficient, high performance, and reliable
  one-to-many and many-to-many Internet data
  transmissions
• Offer Next-Generation Internet Applications
• Audio/Video Distribution
• Push Technology/Information Delivery
• Conferencing and Collaboration
• Software/Data Distribution
• The traditional (unicast) data distribution
  mechanisms dont scale for many simultaneous
  transmissions to a large number of recipients

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P911 Current situation

• 75 MM Project
• start 26/01/99, completion December 99
• Shareholders
• AF, DT, FT, IC, IT, OG
• Close Collaboration with
• IETF/IRTF
• European National Research Networks
• DANTE/TERENA and TF-TANT
• Network equipment vendors (Cisco,...)

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P911 Project Breakdown

• T2 State of the Art Technologies, Products, and
  Services
• T3 Trials with IP Multicast
• T4 Proposal for New Services Based on IP
  Multicast
• D1 State of the Art Technologies, Products, and
  Services (6/99)
• D2 Results and Recommendations (12/99)

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P911 Issues

• Examine actual status of IP Multicast
  Technologies (IETF, products, services)
• Run local and international trials(applications,
  routing, management)
• Recommendations for the roll-out of IPMC
• P911 is being regarded as kick-off-project for
  future activities in this area

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P911 Expected Results

• Make the EURESCOM Shareholders aware of the
  potentials of IP Multicast
• Demonstrate services and applications based on IP
  Multicast
• Give recommendations for the roll-out of services
  based on IP Multicast
• Serve as a basis for future activities in this
  area (within EURESCOM, EU-funded projects,
  national activities)

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Sprint IPMC Network
Private Peering
Seattle, WA
Ameritech Exchange Point
Pacific Bell Exchange Point
Private Peering
Sprint Exchange Point
MAE-West Exchange Point
Cheyenne, WY
Chicago, IL
New York, NY
Pennsauken, NJ
Stockton, CA
Roachdale, IN
Relay, MD
Private Peering
San Jose, CA
Kansas City, MO
Washington, DC
Anaheim, CA
Private Peering
MAE-East Exchange Point
Atlanta, GA
Private Peering
Private Peering
Ft. Worth, TX
Orlando, FL
Private Peering
GigaPOP with GSR
MegaPOP with 7507
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Proposed Multicast Architecture

• PIM-SM Intra-domain routing protocol
• MSDP Peering between intra-domain Rendezvous
  Points
• MBGP For Inter- and Intra-domain Multicast
  Routing
• Is this the way to go?(P911 will answer this
  question!)

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This year (1999) Multicast turns into Internet
Multicast (Van Jacobson, Chief Scientist of
Cisco Systems Inc.)