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Table Of Contents

Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
- Purpose
- Related resources
- Support
Chapter 2: New in this release
- VOSS 4.2.1
  - Features
  - Other changes
- VOSS 4.2
  - Features
  - Other changes
Chapter 3: Network design fundamentals
Chapter 4: Hardware fundamentals and guidelines
- Supported hardware
- Platform considerations
- Hardware compatibility for VSP 4000
- Supported optical devices
- Dispersion considerations for long reach
- 10/100BASE-X and 1000BASE-TX reach
- 10/100/1000BASE-TX Auto-Negotiation recommendations
- Auto MDIX
- CANA
Chapter 5: Optical routing design
- Optical routing system components
Chapter 6: Platform redundancy
- Power redundancy
- Input/output port redundancy
- Configuration redundancy
- Link redundancy
Chapter 7: Link redundancy
- Physical layer redundancy
- MultiLink Trunking
- 802.3ad-based link aggregation
Chapter 8: Layer 2 loop prevention
- Loop prevention and detection
- SLPP example scenarios
Chapter 9: Layer 2 switch clustering and SMLT
- Split MultiLink Trunk configuration
Chapter 10: Layer 3 switch clustering and RSMLT
- Routed SMLT
- Switch clustering topologies and interoperability with other products
Chapter 11: Layer 3 switch clustering and multicast SMLT
- General guidelines
- Multicast triangle topology
- Square and full-mesh topology multicast guidelines
- SMLT and multicast traffic issues
Chapter 12: Spanning tree
- Spanning tree and protection against isolated VLANs
- MSTP and RSTP considerations
Chapter 13: Layer 3 network design
- VRF Lite
- Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
- Open Shortest Path First
- Border Gateway Protocol
- IP routed interface scaling
- IPv6
Chapter 14: SPBM design guidelines
- 802.1aq standard
- VLANs without member ports
- Provisioning
- Implementation options
- Reference architectures
- Solution-specific reference architectures
- Best practices
- SPBM restrictions and limitations
- IP multicast over Fabric Connect restrictions
Chapter 15: IP multicast network design
- Multicast and VRF-Lite
- Multicast and MultiLink Trunking considerations
- Multicast scalability design rules
- IP multicast address range restrictions
- Multicast MAC address mapping considerations
- Dynamic multicast configuration changes
- IGMPv3 backward compatibility
- IGMP Layer 2 Querier
- TTL in IP multicast packets
- Multicast MAC filtering
- Guidelines for multicast access policies
- Split-subnet and multicast
- Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode guidelines
- Protocol Independent Multicast-Source Specific Multicast guidelines
- Multicast for multimedia
Chapter 16: System and network stability and security
- DoS protection mechanisms
- Damage prevention
- Data plane security
- Control plane security
- Additional information
Chapter 17: QoS design guidelines
- QoS mechanisms
- QoS interface considerations
- Network congestion and QoS design
- QoS examples and recommendations
Chapter 18: Layer 1, 2, and 3 design examples
- Layer 1 example
- Layer 2 example
- Layer 3 example
Glossary

Chapter 15: IP multicast network design

Use multicast routing protocols to efficiently distribute a single data source among multiple users in

the network. This section provides information about how to design networks that support IP

multicast routing.

For more information about multicast routing, see Configuring IP Multicast Routing Protocols on

Avaya Virtual Services Platform 4000 Series , NN46251-504.

For design guidelines on IP Multicast over Fabric Connect, see

SPBM design guidelines on

page 93.

For more conceptual and configuration information about IP Multicast over Fabric Connect, see

Configuring Avaya Fabric Connect on VSP Operating System Software, NN47227-510.

Multicast and VRF-Lite

You can configure multicast routing support with the Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) Lite

feature. This feature is known as multicast virtualization.

Multicast virtualization enables multiple VRF routing instances on devices and supports various

unicast routing protocols so that you can provide the services of many virtual routers from one

physical device.

VRF-Lite configurations support IGMP.

Multicast virtualization provides support for:

• Virtualization of control and data plane

• Multicast routing table managers (MRTM)

• Virtualized IGMPv1, v2, and v3

• Support for overlapping multicast address spaces

• Support for the Global Router (VRF0)

June 2015 Network Design Reference for Avaya VSP 4000 Series 125

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