[cisco-voip] Multicast MOH Design

[Matthew Saskin]

Poor mans fix - build GRE tunnels across the MPLS links and do whatever 
the heck you want, at an additional administrative cost of course...

-matt

Matt Slaga (US) wrote:
> You will also need to ensure that your MPLS provider allows for 
> multicast on the wan links.  Most like to charge extra for that “feature”.
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> *From:* cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net 
> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] *On Behalf Of 
> *CarlosOrtiz at bayviewfinancial.com
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 02, 2007 9:57 AM
> *To:* Erik Erasmus (E)
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> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] Multicast MOH Design
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> I currently have one office that I setup with  2 different MOH streams. 
>  One of them is being streamed from the local flash (multicast spoof) 
> and the other is being unicast to the other group members (only about 5 
> people).  I now have gotten a request for 3 MOH streams and it is a much 
> bigger office.  That is why I am asking about streaming all sources from 
> a centralized location.  I assume this will work but just wanted to see 
> if anyone had any pointers.
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> Carlos
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> *"Erik Erasmus (E)" <ErasmuE4 at telkom.co.za>*
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> I have finally sorted multicast MOH using the branch flashes with 
> multicast to the pstn gateway etc etc without using the “require mtp 
> tick box on the ccm gateway config”  but cannot help you with MOH across 
> MPLS as the networks we have as MPLS option here normally don’t have 
> multicasting enabled and because bandwidth is so costly it is not viable.
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> However – if you need advice to get it done streaming at branches and 
> having multicast MOH everywhere – let me know
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> *From:* cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net 
> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] *On Behalf Of 
> *CarlosOrtiz at bayviewfinancial.com*
> Sent:* Thursday, August 02, 2007 3:27 PM*
> To:* cisco-voip at puck.nether.net*
> Subject:* [cisco-voip] Multicast MOH Design
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> Does anyone have a setup where they have a multicast enabled MPLS 
> network that is set up to do MOH to the remote sites?  
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> I am thinking of setting up multiple multicast enabled audio sources and 
> streaming them to the remote sites.    Each remote site may need 2-4 
> different streams because different business groups want different MOH. 
>  This would eliminate local streaming from flash because when in SRST 
> the local flash MOH is used and would be incorrectly played for all 
> business groups.
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> Any thoughts or known gotchas would be appreciated.
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> Carlos
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