Multicast RP Design and Sizing

[Rakhmadian Purnama]

Hello Folks,

My customer is IPTV broadcasting company, sometimes other provider also use their content to provide the IPTV service for their clients. In order to achieve that goal, we want to put a device (either Router/Switch) to perform MSDP peering. Let's assume the total traffic from the IPTV source is about 10Gbps towards the receivers. In addition, the customer requires min 8 x 10Gbps for some reason.

I'm considering to use Catalyst 9500 (switch) or 8500 (router) for this RP, if I'm only looking at the port density requirement. But I'm still not sure about the Forwarding/Switching capacity related to Multicast traffic. I want to know if there's a guide and common best practice to determine the ideal router/switch platform for Multicast RP? What router/switch specifications that I need to looking at?

Thanks,

-Rp

[balaji.bandi]

Depends on where this device positioned and serving clients ?

check some reference :

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/about/ciscoitatwork/downloads/ciscoitatwork/pdf/cisco_it_case_study_iptv.pdf

Both are latest Platforms so they should able to service the requirement what you looking, but again we need to always deploy and monitor - based in the Datasheet what they claim for multicast routing support.

[Rakhmadian Purnama]

Hi Balaji,

The proposed RP device will be located in the source provider (as border of MSDP).

[MHM Cisco World]

C9500 is high end SW, so if you using it as RP I dont see any problem 
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-9500-series-switches/nb-06-cat9500-ser-data-sheet-cte-en.html

MHM