Question 780
A preventive architecture review covers this situation: During a predeployment review for a financial trading campus, the team discovers this design gap: a financial multicast application has many active sources and receivers that must share identical data without unnecessary source-specific state in the core. An approval gate requires both a measurable acceptance check and a durable prevention control. Which preventive design control MOST DIRECTLY addresses this specific risk?
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Test designated-forwarder election and RP failure behavior in the bidirectional domain. Apply the same control to the financial trading campus rollout checklist. This control targets the underlying design risk. Bidirectional PIM supports shared-tree forwarding for many-to-many multicast without constructing individual source trees for every sender. The follow-up acceptance check remains: Multiple approved senders reach receivers over the intended shared tree at planned scale. The financial trading campus acceptance record also captures this result.
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Multicast can replicate traffic within the network only where receivers need it, reducing redundant source-side transmissions. The repeat risk here is different: Bidirectional PIM supports shared-tree forwarding for many-to-many multicast without constructing individual source trees for every sender. A directly relevant preventive control is: Test designated-forwarder election and RP failure behavior in the bidirectional domain. Apply the same control to the financial trading campus rollout checklist.
MSDP can advertise active sources between participating RPs in ASM deployments; it is not an SSM dependency. The repeat risk here is different: Bidirectional PIM supports shared-tree forwarding for many-to-many multicast without constructing individual source trees for every sender. A directly relevant preventive control is: Test designated-forwarder election and RP failure behavior in the bidirectional domain. Apply the same control to the financial trading campus rollout checklist.
SSM identifies a desired source and group and generally does not rely on ASM RP source discovery. The repeat risk here is different: Bidirectional PIM supports shared-tree forwarding for many-to-many multicast without constructing individual source trees for every sender. A directly relevant preventive control is: Test designated-forwarder election and RP failure behavior in the bidirectional domain. Apply the same control to the financial trading campus rollout checklist.