3 Benefis of PIM SSM over PIM SM
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6 - SSM consumes minimum link bandwidth
7 - SSM simplifies multicast address management (specially important for
8 inter-domain multicast)
9 - SSM (S,G) channels easily provide unique per-application addressing
10 - SSM does not require MSDP between PIM domains
11 - SSM does not suffer instabilities from traffic-driven SPT switchover
12 - SSM is not suscetible to DoS attack from unwanted sources
13 - SSM does not use RP. Some RP issues:
14 - RP is possible point of failure
15 - RP demands redundancy management
16 - RP may require PIM dense mode support for RP election
17 - RP is possible performance bottleneck
18 - RP may demand lots of extra management
19 - SSM can be deployed in an existing PIM SM network (only the last hop
20 routers need to support IGMPv3)
21 - SSM is easier to deploy and maintain
26 - SSM requires IGMPv3 support on both receivers and last-hop routers
27 - SSM may be memory intensive when managing (S,G) states for
28 many-to-many multicast distribution
29 - SSM will keep (S,G) state as long as there are subscriptions from
30 receivers, even if the source is not actually sending traffic