[c-nsp] Multicast Core

[Seth Mattinen]

On 3/16/2010 10:28, Tony Bunce wrote:
> The total of the multicast sources is 4Gbps so I don't think a 7200 would work unfortunately.  The router would mostly serve as a IGMP querier and would only ever route 2-3 streams at a time, so I think my worst case would be sum of all sources + 3 streams
> 
> The 4948 says "Hardware-based wire-speed multicast management" but I'm not sure if that is marketing speak for "igmp snooping" or "hardware multicast routing".  A 6500 seems like overkill but that might be my only option.
> 

The 4900M is a different beast than the 4948 even though they share a
similar model number.

~Seth