Last updated 8/27/2001

Finally, the IP Multicast Training materials have been updated with the latest information!  Many of you have previously downloaded these materials for the purpose of self-training on IP Multicast. These new course materials have been updated and are even better than before. The training material includes lots of new topics not covered previously in the old course materials.

Here's just a sample of some of the changes/additions to the material:

Layer 2 Campus Design - Module 2 now contains material on the design issues relating to IP Multicast over campus networks including topics such as CGMP, IGMP Snooping, IGMPv3, mutlicast over ATM-LANE, and general Layer 2 "gotchas" that need to be avoided.

Rendezvous Points - Module 6 is devoted to this topic and will help you answer that age old question, "Where do I put my RP?"  This module covers the use of various RP techniques such Static RP's, Auto-RP and BSR as well as how to tune and debug these mechanisms.

Advanced IP Multicast Features - Module 7 is a module that is chocked full of advanced multicast topics including, IP Multicast Helper, dealing with Rate-Limits, Admin. Scoping and many others. A real "must" read for people that are serious about extracting the absolute maximum performance out of their multicast network

Multiprotocol BGP (MBGP) - Module 10 covers the use of MBGP for Inter-domain IP Multicast.   Even if you are not already a BGP guru, you will find this module very helpful as it contains a short overview on BGP that will give the beginner to Inter-domain IP Multicasting the necessary background on BGP to get started.

Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) - Module 11 highlights MSDP and how it is currently being used in the Internet to interconnect independent PIM Sparse mode domains so that true Inter-domain IP Multicast can be accomplished.

PIM Protocol Extension - Module 12 is an entirely new module that describes two of the latest extensions to the PIM protocol; Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) and Bidirectional PIM (Bidir). These two new extensions allow PIM to scale better in several different ways.

These IP Multicast training modules have previously been used for internal Cisco training only. Due to the tremendous demand for this information, we have made this content available for "self-training" purposes by our customers. All of this material is copyrighted and may not be repackaged or resold for any commercial purposes without written permission from Cisco Systems.

All modules are constantly being updated to improve their content and/or correct any mistakes in the material. You may wish to check this page from time to time to download updated versions of the material.

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