Understanding How MVPN Works
Figure 25-1 Default Multicast Distribution Tree Overview
Customer 1
San Jose Site
If an employee in New York joins the multicast session, the PE router associated for the New York site
sends a join request that flows across the default MDT for the multicast domain. The PE router
associated with the multicast session source (PE1) receives the request.
router forwards the request to the CE router associated with the multicast source (CE1a).
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Multicast
Local multicast
sender
recipient
CE1a
CE1b
PE1
P1
MPLS Core
P4
PE4
CE4
Customer 2
Houston Site
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Configuring IPv4 Multicast VPN Support
CE2
PE2
Customer 1
New York Site
P2
PIM (SM/bidir/SSM)
in Core
P3
PE3
CE3
Customer 1
Dallas Site
Figure 25-2
shows how the PE
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