Question 770
The network architecture board discusses the following: During a predeployment review for an enterprise services hub, the team discovers this design gap: an enterprise carries one known authorized video source per group and wants to avoid RP-related source discovery overhead. An approval gate requires both a measurable acceptance check and a durable prevention control. Which technical principle BEST explains the design decision?
Explanation
Correct Answer
SSM identifies a desired source and group and generally does not rely on ASM RP source discovery. The correct engineering response is: Use Source-Specific Multicast with compatible receiver signaling such as IGMPv3 and supported routing. The observable check is: Receivers join only the expected (source,group) stream and unwanted sources do not appear. The enterprise services hub acceptance record also captures this result.
Incorrect Answers
SSM identifies a desired source and group and generally does not rely on ASM RP source discovery. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: MSDP can advertise active sources between participating RPs in ASM deployments; it is not an SSM dependency. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.
SSM identifies a desired source and group and generally does not rely on ASM RP source discovery. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: SSM receivers normally signal a particular source/group using IGMPv3 or an equivalent mechanism. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.
SSM identifies a desired source and group and generally does not rely on ASM RP source discovery. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: Bidirectional PIM supports shared-tree forwarding for many-to-many multicast without constructing individual source trees for every sender. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.