Router to convert Multicast stream to Unicast

[deeptitarkar554]

Is it possible to convert multicast streams (224.0.0.1:1234) to unicast (Receiver 10.0.0.1:1234) at the router level. I need the details of the router device which supports this.

Thanks.

[Harold Ritter · Accepted solution]

Hi Deepti,

It is indeed possible to convert multicast streams to unicast streams and vice versa. The feauture is called Multicast Service Reflection (MSR).

Please refer to the following document for more information on how to use MSR:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/ipmulti/configuration/guide/imc_serv_reflect.html

Regards

[deeptitarkar554]

Hi,Thanks for your reply. I have read  the link you mailed and looks like I can achieve what I want. I would  still like to confirm if the attached setup will work.

Here  unicast streaming destination is not the client ip address but it will  be the border router ip address eg http://border-router-ip-address:8080

Thanks,

Deepti Tarkar

[Harold Ritter]

Hi Deepti,

This will not work for two reason.

1- You use a http url on the clients. The original stream is udp. MSR does multicast to unicast translation but it does not convert udp to tcp.

2- The stream would need to be forwarded to each an every clients not to the border router address.

Regards

[deeptitarkar554]

Thank you!