[c-nsp] Multicast Core

[Rene F.]

On 3/16/10 2:49 PM, Alexander Clouter wrote:
> Phil Mayers<p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk>  wrote:
>    
>> On 16/03/10 17:04, Adrian Minta wrote:
>>      
>>> 3750G will not handle this becase multicast routing is done in CPU. I
>>> believe the first switch that do multicast routing in hardware is 6500.
>>>        
>> I don't think that's true. I think 3750s do multicast in hardware.
>>
>>      
> Ours definiately do, otherwise I would imagine all that IPTV traffic on
> our network would be crippling them...plus they probably would not be
> all idling at 2%.
>
> Cheers
>
>    
Same here. Our 3750Gs (and ME3400s) are doing gigs of multicast in hardware.

Rene