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Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Feature Summary - IP Multicast on Supervisor Engine 2 with MSFC2

Overview Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches provides industry-leading support for IP multicast, from the wiring closet to the network core. This white paper provides a high-level overview of the comprehensive IP multicast feature support available on the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 2 with the Multilayer Switch Feature Card (MSFC2). The advantages of IP multicast can be seen whenever users need information transferred from a sender to multiple recipients.

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Publisher	Cisco	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	January 2003	Downloads	63
Format	White Papers
Topics	Switching, Multicasting

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