Many guides and videos are available to show AV professionals how to configure a network to support IGMP multicast but there are few options available to practice.  This hands-on session will focus on allowing small groups to configure a network to support multicast AV encoders and decoders.  Focus will be placed on the ways major AV products require minor differences in the configurations and often these different products are put on different VLANs.  Starting with a network switch with its default configuration, the participants will work in groups to support transport of the multicast traffic from encoders to decoders.  

There are many different network switches with different methods for configuration.  This session will focus on a single, large, popular, network switch brand but simultaneously, there will be guidance on how other brands would accomplish similar settings.  

By completion of this session, participants will be comfortable with configuring a simple single switch network to support the transport of multicast traffic.

NOTE: Please bring your laptop with the free download, PuTTY, loaded on it.