MX MULTICAST REPLICATION

MULTICAST REPLICATION ALGORITHM

Goals
 Same forwarding treatment for unicast and multicast (CoS)
 Simplified logic (better MTBF, power)
Solution
 Implement replication on the line card
 Construct a tree over fabric

Ingress PFE
PFE PFE
Intermediate PFE

PFE PFE
Egress PFE
Each PFE replicates
to local ports

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PARAMETERS OF THE ALGORITHM DEPEND ON THE
LINE CARD

LINE CARD REPLICATION TYPE

DPCE BINARY
MPC1 BINARY
MPC2 BINARY
MPC 16x10GE UNARY
MPC3 UNARY
MPC4 UNARY

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MULTICAST PERFORMANCE
Available resources and
Parsing,
contributors to utilization lookup, filters, PFE
 LU processing capacity counters,
policers, rewrite N x LU
 Packet rate (not size)
 Packet operations (filters,
policers, etc) WAN Fabric
 MQ/XM fabric bandwidth MQ/XM
(egress)
 Unicast towards other PFEs Interfaces, port
 Ingress PFE : Multicast towards queuing, packet
delay buffer access
other PFEs (volume depends on Generalized
the replication type)
PFE view
 Intermediate PFE : Multicast
towards other PFEs (volume
depends on the replication type)
 MQ/XM memory bandwidth
 Total traffic in plus total traffic out

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WORST CASE SCENARIO

PFE All WAN egress traffic is

multicast and received
from fabric, plus
N x LU replicated back to other
PFEs (intermediate PFE
WAN Fabric role)

MQ/XM

All ingress multicast

is sent over fabric (no
local receivers)
Generalized
PFE view
Assuming symmetrical rate on the WAN side = X

MQ/XM fabric bandwidth limit : 2 * X (UNARY) or 4 * X (BINARY)

MQ/XM memory bandwidth limit : 5 * X (UNARY) or 7 * X (BINARY)

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ENGINEERING RULES FOR HIGH CAPACITY
SYMMETRICAL MULTICAST

N x 10GE N x 10GE
1 PFE @ FAB MEM
TYPE Xfab Xmem @ 8.5 Gbps @ 8.5 Gbps
LINE CARD BW BW
per PFE per card
MPC1 BINARY 76 130 19 26 2 2
MPC2 BINARY 76 130 19 26 2 4
MPC16x10GE UNARY 38 130 19 26 2 8
MPC3 UNARY 160 515 80 103 9 9
MPC4 UNARY 120 515 60 103 7 14

Assuming symmetrical rate on the WAN side = X

MQ/XM fabric bandwidth limit : 2 * Xfab (UNARY) or 4 * Xfab (BINARY)

MQ/XM memory bandwidth limit : 5 * Xmem (UNARY) or 7 * Xmem (BINARY)

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