[c-nsp] multicast within a mpls vpn (ios xr , asr9000)

[Mark Tinka]

On Tuesday, May 01, 2012 02:33:16 PM Tony wrote:

> Hi Aaron,
> 
> There is a fairly complete example here, with notated
> configs:
> 
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk436/tk428/technologies_
> configuration_example09186a0080242aa8.shtml

What is really cool these days is NG-MVPN (a.k.a BGP-MVPN), 
where MPLS is used as the data plane for Multicast (via p2mp 
RSVP-TE or mLDP) and BGP is used as PIM (MCAST NLRI).

Juniper have had a working implementation for a long time 
now, and Cisco will be coming to the party some time in 2013 
on the ASR9000. I hope this happens sooner, as I know I 
still prefer Juniper's for this very reason, and many an 
ASR9000 has lost on a deal due to lack of this (or Cisco's 
insistence on pushing mLDP only, when they will eventually 
have no choice but be forced to support p2mp RSVP-TE as 
well).

I steer clear of classic Rosen-style MVPN's, although I know 
many networks run them successfully.

Mark.