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MODULAR SWITCHES FIXED-CONFIGURATION SWITCHES
Catalyst 6500 Catalyst 4500 Catalyst 4900 Catalyst 3750 Catalyst 3560 Catalyst 2960 Catalyst 2950 Catalyst 2940
Catalyst
Express 500
DELIVERY OPTIMIZATION continued
Multicast
H/W-based IPv6 Multicast
•
in software in software no PIM no PIM
H/W-based IPv4 Multicast
• • • • • • • • •
H/W-based Bi-directional PIM
•
Multicast Manager
•
Source Specific Multicast (SSM)
• • •
Multicast NSF/SSO
•
PIM Sparse
• • • • •
PIM Dense
• • • • •
PIM Sparse/Dense
• • • • •
PIM Snooping
•
IGMP V1/V2
• • • • • • • • •
IGMP V3
• • • • • • • • •
CGMP
• • • • •
RGMP
•
DVMRP Interoperabiity
• • • • •
Number of Multicast Routes 32,000 28,000 28,000 1,000 1,000
IGMP Snooping
• • • • • • • • •
IGMP Querier
• • • •
SSM Mapping
• • •
H/W-based Multicast Tunneling
•
mVRF Lite
•
Multicast VPN (mVPN)
•
Tunneling Protocols
H/W-based GRE
•
in software in software
H/W-based Multipoint GRE
• • •
H/W-based IPv4 in IPv6
•
in software in software
H/W-based IP in IP
•
in software in software
Cisco Catalyst Switches: FEATURE COMPARISON