IP Multicast Deployment Workshop

Presented by Dr. Kevin Almeroth
Senior Technologist - IP Multicast Initiative
Assistant Professor
Networking and Multimedia Systems Group
University of California – Santa Barbara

Summary:

Before you can take advantage of IP Multicast, you need to understand which protocols will work best for you. Several IP Multicast routing protocols networked multimedia protocols, and reliable IP Multicast protocols will be discussed in detail, including IGMP, DVMRP, PIM, PGM, RSVP, RTSP, RTP, and H.323. This seminar will help you understand these protocols and applications, providing you with a roadmap for their deployment.

Join us for an exciting day of education on IP Multicast application and protocols in your network. In one day, you'll learn how to turn today's network into the network of the future.

Agenda:

9:00 Overview

IP Multicast and the applications it enables provide significant benefits. This session will explore the technical benefits you will realize in your network and the business benefits these technologies can deliver to your organization.

9:45 Real World Solutions

Companies are deploying IP Multicast-enabled applications today. This will be an in depth look at some key customer examples and discuss their specific deployment and what their problems and issues were as well as their successes. The information will deal with examples of IP Multicast and other key technology deployments.

10:45 Break

11:00 Networked Multimedia & IP Multicast Protocols

IP Multicast, RSVP, RTP, DVMRP, PIM, H.323 and others are key protocols to your network. This session will provide context for eachprotocol, what it does and how it relates to the others.

12:30 Lunch

AFTERNOON

1:30 IP Multicast Routing and Router Deployment

The IP Multicast routing protocols will be looked at in detail. Both DVMRP and PIM will be looked at and the positives and negatives of each will be explored to allow attendees to make a good decision for their networks. We will discuss the current standards track that each is on within the IEFT. How to actually turn on a routing protocol in your router will be overviewed, using Cisco as the example throughout the presentation.

3:30 Reliable Multicast Solutions

A look at Reliable Multicast, the applications it enables and the need for these protocols. Both Multicast file transfer and real-time data will be presented. Real-life examples will be used throughout. Specifically PGM, MFTP and RMTP-II will be overviewed as protocols on the standards track.

4:00 Break

4:15 Deployment Planning

A walk through of the steps every network manager must go through to enable IP Multicast and IP Multicast-enabled applications in their networks. A "deployment sheet" will be provided to help attendees make decisions regarding their particular situations. Pointers to additional vendor specific information will be provided. Real-life examples will be used throughout.

Instructor:

Kevin Almeroth [http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~almeroth/] is an assistant professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara where he is part of the Networking and Multimedia Systems Group. His research interests include computer networks and protocols, multicast communication, large-scale multimedia systems, and performance evaluation. Some specific research projects include the Interactive Multimedia Jukebox (IMJ) [http://imj.gatech.edu/], a WWW-based scheduling system for the transmission of on-demand content using multicast communication. A paper describing the IMJ won the Best Paper Award at the WWW7 conference. Another project is the long-term collection of multicast group membership data for use in measuring the growth and health of multicast communication as an Internet service. In addition to these research projects, Dr. Almeroth is involved in the design of the California Research and Education Network (CalREN-2), a high-speed backbone to connect research institutions. He is also actively involved in teaching and has successfully worked to implement the Media Arts and Technology Program (MATP) at UCSB. Outside of UCSB, Dr. Almeroth's work with multicast has lead to involvement in a number of organizations.He is an active participant in several Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups; he has helped manage multicast for Networld+Interop as part of the Network Operations Center (NOC) team;he is a Senior Technologist for the IP Multicast Initiative (IPMI) sponsored by Stardust Forums; and he is the multicast working group chair for Internet2