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Understanding and Troubleshooting Your Multicast Distribution Network

Many networks today rely heavily on delivering multicast throughout the topology, especially for video/audio flow distribution in a broadcast network. Multicast is required in these systems to avoid maintaining multiple connections for the same stream of data with every endpoint. This is achieved via multiple flow replications and finding shared and shortest paths from senders to receivers.

Given that customers’ valuable content and data is being distributed as multicast, it is vital to understand the mechanics of how a stream of data reaches the receiver from its corresponding sender. This enables a user to better troubleshoot routing issues in a live environment.

Join Arista Technical Lead, Upasana Dangi and Systems Engineer, Ryan Morris as they provide insight into the functionality of multicast and go through a deep dive on some common troubleshooting techniques in multicast environments.

Topics covered:

• Overview of the methods of distributing multicast and message exchanges
• Troubleshooting commonly faced problems in a multicast distribution network
• Review useful diagnostic commands and interpreting their output