Cisco Systems 8600 Series Standards, Multicasting Benefits, Multicasting Overview, BME Features

Standards

•Video distribution, e.g., IP multicast video networks to the desktop

•Remote learning

•Medical imaging

Standards

•UNI 3.1 Multicast Server

•UNI 4.0 Leaf Initiated Joins and related standards

Multicasting Benefits

Multicasting point-to-multipoint connections benefits include:

•Decreased delay in receiving data

•Near simultaneous reception of data by all leaves

Multicasting Overview

BME Features:

•The BME is a two-port OC12 card

•Supports up to 1000 multicast groups

•Supports up to 8064 connections, at 4032 per port. It can support the following combinations:

—1000 roots with 8 leaves in each multicast group

—100 roots with 80 leaves in each multicast group

—2 roots with 4000 leaves in each multicast group

—or any other such combination.

•Supports CBR, UBR, VBR, and ATFR connections

•Hot standby

BME Requirements

•Firmware of type BMEMK, where K is the model number for BME

•upln is used to bring up line 1 and line 2.

•upport is used to bring up port1 and port 2, respectively.

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