IP multicast routing today

Jákó András <goya@eik.bme.hu>

BME EISzK

After long years of research and development, multicast technologies are still in their early days. Obviously routing must lead ahead of applications, and there is a set of multicast routing protocols, as you could expect. Some of them are just temporary solutions. However, this protocol set is a complete, working solution.

This presentation briefly introduces the set of IP multicast routing protocols used nowadays (IGMP, PIM-SM, MBGP, MSDP), and also notes the research and development directions.