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Table 69 Advanced Application > Multicast > Multicast Setting > IGMP Filtering

 

Profile (continued)

 

 

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

Add

Click Add to save the profile to the Switch’s run-time memory. The

 

 

Switch loses these changes if it is turned off or loses power, so use the

 

 

Save link on the top navigation panel to save your changes to the

 

 

non-volatile memory when you are done configuring.

 

 

 

 

Clear

Click Clear to clear the fields to the factory defaults.

 

 

 

 

Profile Name

This field displays the descriptive name of the profile.

 

 

 

 

Start Address

This field displays the start of the multicast address range.

 

 

 

 

End Address

This field displays the end of the multicast address range.

 

 

 

 

Delete

To delete the profile(s) and all the accompanying rules, select the

 

 

profile(s) that you want to remove in the Delete Profile column, then

 

 

click the Delete button.

 

 

To delete a rule(s) from a profile, select the rule(s) that you want to

 

 

remove in the Delete Rule column, then click the Delete button.

 

 

 

 

Cancel

Click Cancel to clear the Delete Profile/Delete Rule check boxes.

 

 

 

24.6 MVR Overview

Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR) is designed for applications (such as Media-on- Demand (MoD)) that use multicast traffic across an Ethernet ring-based service provider network.

MVR allows one single multicast VLAN to be shared among different subscriber VLANs on the network. While isolated in different subscriber VLANs, connected devices can subscribe to and unsubscribe from the multicast stream in the multicast VLAN. This improves bandwidth utilization with reduced multicast traffic in the subscriber VLANs and simplifies multicast group management.

MVR only responds to IGMP join and leave control messages from multicast groups that are configured under MVR. Join and leave reports from other multicast groups are managed by IGMP snooping.

The following figure shows a network example. The subscriber VLAN (1, 2 and 3) information is hidden from the streaming media server, S. In addition, the multicast VLAN information is only visible to the Switch and S.

Figure 115 MVR Network Example

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