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- Duration
- 2h 41m
- Difficulty
- Professional
- Instructor
- Rohit Pardasani
- Videos
- 7
- Quizzes
- 5
- CPE Credits
- 3
- Published
- Jan 08, 2022
- Updated
- Jan 23, 2023
Multicast Routing for Network Engineers
Multicast Routing for Network Engineers provides a foundational understanding of how multicast communication is implemented and managed in enterprise and service provider networks. The course explains how multicast enables efficient one-to-many data delivery by optimizing bandwidth usage and reducing unnecessary traffic replication. Learners explore key concepts such as multicast addressing, receiver join behavior, distribution tree structures, and the role of Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) in forwarding multicast traffic efficiently across the network. It also covers PIM sparse mode, dense mode, and sparse-dense mode, along with core PIMv2 principles and their impact on routing and design decisions. This course serves as a strong starting point for engineers who want to understand multicast fundamentals, as well as those responsible for deploying, managing, or troubleshooting multicast routing in real-world environments.
Instructor
Rohit Pardasani
Course Instructor
Senior Architect and Chief Instructor Rohit has been in the networking industry for more than 19 years, with a focus on Cisco networking for the past 17 years. Rohit not only brings his years of teaching experience to the classroom, but also years of real-world enterprise and service provider experience. Rohit has assisted hundreds of engineers in obtaining their CCIE certification, and has been conducting CCIE RS, CCIE SEC, CCIE SP and CCIE Collaboration for Cisco Systems worldwide. Rohit currently holds 5xCCIE’s (Routing Switching, Service Provider, Security, Voice and Collaboration). When not teaching or developing new products, Rohit consults with large ISPs and enterprise customers in India and UK. Rohit is currently pursuing his CCIE Data Center certification. You may contact Rohit at rpardasani@.com.