Automatic Rendezvous Point

‘Auto-RP’ is a Cisco propriety technology that automates distribution of multicast group to rendezvous point distribution in a PIM topology.

Auto-RP has some benefits:

• Makes it easier to use multi rendezvous points inside of a network to service different group ranges
• Allows for load splitting across multiple rendezvous points
• Simplifies rendezvous point placement towards the location of group participants
• Prevents inconsistent manual static rendezvous point configuration
• Multi rendezvous points can act as backups for the other rendezvous point
• The automatic rendezvous point technology has two basis components, candidate rendezvous points and rendezvous point mapping agents.