Cisco Catalyst Switches: F E ATU R E C OMPA R IS ON
D E L I V E R Y O P T I M I Z AT I O N
c o n t i n u e d
Multicast
H/W-based IPv6 Multicast
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
IGMP Snooping
IGMP Querier
SSM Mapping
H/W-based Multicast Tunneling
mVRF Lite
Multicast VPN (mVPN)
Tunneling Protocols
H/W-based GRE
H/W-based Multipoint GRE
H/W-based IPv4 in IPv6
H/W-based IP in IP
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M O D U L A R S W I T C H E S
Catalyst 6500
Catalyst 4500
Catalyst 4900
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in software
in software
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32,000
28,000
28,000
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in software
in software
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in software
in software
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in software
in software
F I X E D - C O N F I G U R AT I O N S W I T C H E S
Catalyst 3750
Catalyst 3560
Catalyst 2960
no PIM
no PIM
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1,000
1,000
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Catalyst
Catalyst 2950
Catalyst 2940
Express 500
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