Topic of Presentation: PIM-tunnels vs. MPLS P2MP as Multicast data plane in IPTV and MVPN applications – the experience

Language: Polish

Rafal Szarecki – is part of Juniper Networks EMEA Professional Services team. He joined the company in Jan 2006 as a PS Consultant after spending 6 years in Ericsson Customer Services and then Solution groups. Before Rafał was working for Academic and Research Computer Networks (NASK), and he has more then 10 years of experience in the computer networking industry. During his career Rafał was involved in developing and implementation of multiple networks in Poland and abroad, for biggest Polish and tire 1 European Operators. His main specialisation area is implementation of MPLS services on the backbone networks and multicast data delivery.

Rafal holds JNCIE-M/T and JNCIP-E (Juniper Networks Certified Internet Expert – M/T series and Juniper Networks Certified Internet Professional – E-series) certificates. He is also certified instructor of Juniper Networks.

Abstract: The talk describes personal experience with full scale implementation of multicast data delivery over Service Provider IP/MPLS backbone. In last year, speaker was part of design and deployment of IPTV delivery in few European, country-wide operators. The session is base on two of them, who chose different technology – IP multicast with PIM and MPLS P2MP LSP with NG-MVPN. The talk focuses on data-plane, and covers lesson leaned from projects, specifically in terms of service reliability.

Some test results are presented and discussed, and clips presenting as end-user experience are showed.