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Live Media Production: Multicast Optimization And Visibility For Clos Fabric In Media Data Centers, Ammar Latif
Live Media Production: Multicast Optimization And Visibility For Clos Fabric In Media Data Centers, Ammar Latif
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Media production data centers are undergoing a major architectural shift to introduce digitization concepts to media creation and media processing workflows. Content companies such as NBC Universal, CBS/Viacom and Disney are modernizing their workflows to take advantage of the flexibility of IP and virtualization.
In these new environments, multicast is utilized to provide point-to-multi-point communications. In order to build point-to-multi-point trees, Multicast has an established set of control protocols such as IGMP and PIM. The existing multicast protocols do not optimize multicast tree formation for maximizing network throughput which lead to decreased fabric utilization and decreased total number of admitted …