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Multicast routing

Project ID: 
255
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Description: Investigate and possibly implement multicast routing on our edge routers.

Deliverables: A report in the first instance. Depending on what it finds, access to external multicast streams

Why: 

Customer: All

Case statement: Although our core routers are (apparently) capable of multicast support, our edge routers currently don't implement any multicast routing. As a result, Informatics users have no access to external multicast streams.

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Time: A week to work out what's possible. Another 2-3 weeks to implement it.

How: 

Proposal:

Resources: Ideally this would be implemented on one or other of the inf-unit's existing network servers.

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Dependencies: May require us to upgrade the firmware in the core routers (though we should really be doing that anyway!).

Risks: It's important that anything which this project produces doesn't destabilise the existing production network.

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