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This use case is concentrated on deploying SDN on the send side of a production network.  Later  In later phases (Use Cases), we will concern ourselves with SDN on the receiving edge and later SDN in the core (i.e. a complete SDN network).

I suspect incremental deployment will be the case for many large production networks, since a forklift change is simply too risky and unrealistic.

Check the following resource that describes the Multicast Forwarding Architecture

The Network

The network topology can be viewed as a core network with two types of edges, the sending edge where IP multicast streams are injected into the network, the receiving edge is where the multicast streams are consumed. The core connects the sending and receiving edges. (This is an oversimplified view of a production network but should suffice for this use case).

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Incremental Deployment

This use case assumes a high volume production network so it is only prudent that sections controlled by SDN are rolled out gradually in the early phases until we have sufficient confidence with the solution in our production environment. 

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