A distributed management platform for integrated multicast monitoring

While multicast services are becoming very attractive, their large deployment and commercial use is currently slowed down partly due to the lack of integrated management solutions for the components that participate to the operation of these services at various levels. Excellent standalone components exist today and are good candidates for the integration. Joined and interfaced with standard management platforms, they cover most of the functions retaled to multicast service monitoring. In this paper we present the resulting architecture of one integration effort which combines two multicast management tools for topology monitoring, pre-event testing and in-situ monitoring. The proposed architecture is used for service level monitoring and data collection.