RE: Use of SAP in a PIM SSM Network

[almeroth@cs.ucsb.edu (Kevin C. Almeroth)]

>>Ericsson has very little problem with multicast in Campus environmnets & LAN's...It is the WAN that "generates" all the problems (link speed, load on existing links, business critical traffic "at risk", and redundancy).  Add to this that My division is responsible, but doesn't have control over different "islands" it also becomes a political mess.

I hate to bring up an oft repeated argument:  "How do you deal with
this for unicast?"

When peering between domains, every single issue you mention is
both an issue for unicast and multicast.

>>I have been kicking away for 2 years to try and motivate folks / organisations to open their eyes to the necessity of multicast.  Until September there was very little interest.  NOW everyone & their brother wants everything to work 6 months ago.  Perhaps it is the globality of organisations that the Ericsson Global IT Services Provides for...Am I the only one with this dilemma??

Nope...  and everyone is struggling.  The solution seems to be to
get these folks thinking the right way about multicast.  

>>SSM would be wonderful if we can get it up & running with support for different applications.  

Do you have content and applications lined up?

>>I have an organisational question but it can easily be SSM / PIM-SM related.  Is there anyone out there that has an application (Platform & Application independant) for the dynamic assignment of multicast addresses GGG.GGG.GGG.GGG:port where folks can book a randomized multicast group in the same way as one would book a conference room??  A bonus feature would be that this application could handle & mediate conflicts (someone "keeping" an assignment, or making their own assignments).

Again, this is perception.  Tell your folks if they feel like they
are likely to see a conflict, they should go buy a lottery ticket.
Same odds.

-Kevin