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On Wed, Apr 22, 2009, Holmes,David A wrote:
> But I recollect that FORE ATM equipment using LAN Emulation (LANE) used
> a broadcast and unknown server (BUS) to establish a point-to-point ATM
> PVC for each broadcast and multicast receiver on a LAN segment. As well
> as being inherently unscalable (I think the BUS ran on an ASX1000 cpu),
> this scheme turned the single stream concept of multicast on its head,
> creating essentially a unicast stream for each multicast PVC client.
IIRC, plenty of popular ethernet switches do this across their backplane
for multicast ..
Adrian
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- From: niels=nanog at bakker.net (Niels Bakker)
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- From: lowen at pari.edu (Lamar Owen)
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- From: dholmes at mwdh2o.com (Holmes,David A)