Bridging Multicast to the Cloud

As more organizations move their workloads to cloud providers, they may discover small gotchas that prevent them from easily running their existing applications that are currently in traditional on-premises environments. One such example is multicast: none of the big players support multicast traffic between nodes in their cloud offerings. The solution? Overlay a mesh virtual network that supports multicast between nodes and can be extended to include on-premises systems. In this talk, we’ll go over how to bring multicast into your cloud environment by implementing n2n in a resilient fashion to link on-premises and cloud environments through a gateway.

Dan Emord has been designing and deploying multi-platform solutions for 8 years and is currently a Lead Site Reliability Consultant at Pythian. Dan runs the gamut of client requests with Pythian’s open scope engagements, including architecting and implementing a wide variety of technologies to solve problems such as network design, multi-platform system automation, and customizing open source tools.