AIT/Internet2 Workshop 18-20 May 2003 Asian Institute of Technology Pathumtani, Thailand

Over the course of this workshop students will design and set up a set of inter-connected multicast networks. The workshop will consist of a set of hands on exercises for small network teams. The workshop will be limited to 20 participants and those participants will be divided into four teams. Each team will have a mix of 5 routers and over the course of the workshop teams will configure their own network, inter-connect with the other teams, and then attach to the AIT/Internet2 connected network.

It is our expectation that, after having experienced one workshop as a student, an attendee will be able to engineer multicast networks within his/her campus, to explain multicast engineering concepts to peers, and, in some cases, to help teach or facilitate future multicast workshops.

Topics to be covered at this workshop includes:

• Router Configuration
• Multicast addressing
• Protocol Soup
  • IGMP (Internet Group Membership Protocol) used by hosts and routers to tell each other about group membership
  • PIM-SM (Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode) used to propagate forwarding state between routers.
  • SSM (Source Specific Multicast) utilizes a subset of PIM's functionality to guaranty source-only trees in the 232/8 range.
  • MSDP (Multicast Source Discovery Protocol) used to exchange ASM active source information between RPs.
  • MBGP (Multiprotocol BGP) used to exchange routing information for interdomain RPF checking.
• SSM & other topics
• Deploying multicast in a multi-vendor environment

Workshop Information

• Instructors:
  Greg Shepherd of Procket Networks, Philip Smith of Cisco Systems, Joel Jaeggli of the University of Oregon, Steven G. Huter of Network Startup Resource Center(NSRC), Patcharee Basu of IRL/AIT.
  : Internet2 Multicast workshop, University of Oregon, June 2002.
  : IPMulticast Tutorial APRICOT 2002
  
• Participants
  Network Engineer/Administrator from educational networks in AP region who will be pushing forward the deployment of multicast at their home institutions. Participants should be familiar with router configuration especially OSPF and BGP.
• Location
  The workshop will be held at the AIT Conference Center, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathumthani, Thailand. [Direction and Map]
• Dates & Times [Agenda]
  The workshop will begin on Sunday, 18 May at 1pm and end Tuesday, 20 May at 6 pm.
• Registration[Click here for online registration]
  There is a $200.00 [8,500Baht] fee to cover workshop costs. Registration will be confirmed only when payment is made. Attendance is limited to 20 students on a first come/first served basis. Late registrations may be wait-listed upon request.
• Accommodations
  The recommended hotel is the AIT Conference Center which is within the AIT Campus. The hotel reservation can be done through the online registration.
• Acknowledgements
  This workshop is made possible with contributions by the Network Startup Resource Center(NSRC), Internet2, Internet Society(ISOC), Cisco systems, Procket Networks, Addison-Wesley / Longman, and Pearson Education.
• What to Bring
  Students are asked to bring a laptop and a wireless access card (802.11b preferred) if you have one. Please install the standard tools (vic/vat/rat/sdr) or IP/TV on your laptops as well as mtrace and any other debugging tools that you find useful. See this tools page for download sites.
• Live Broadcast
  
  • Internet2, Multicast, Microsoft Windows Media 8
    
  • AI3/WIDE, Multicast, Microsoft Windows Media 8
    
• Presentation Files
  
  • AIT Multicast Workshop
• Lab Design
  
  • Lab Design Document
• Photo taken during the Workshop
  
  • Photo

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