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Cisco Data Center Switching Solutions (continued)
Modular Switches
Model/Series Nexus 7000 Series Catalyst 6500 Series
Multicast (continued)
PIM Sparse • •
Source Specific Multicast (SSM) • •
SSM Mapping • •
PIM Dense •
PIM Sparse/Dense •
H/W-based Bidirectional PIM • •
Multicast Routing Monitor •
Multicast NSF/SSO • •
DVMRP Interoperability •
H/W-based Multicast Tunneling •
Multicast VPN (mVPN) • •
Multicast Service Reflection in Hardware •
Number of Multicast Routes 32,000 32,000
Tunneling Protocols
H/W-based GRE • •
H/W-based Multipoint GRE •
H/W-based IPv4 in IPv6 •
H/W-based IP in IP •
HW-based Multicast over GRE • •
LAN and SAN Convergence
FibreChannel
FibreChannel over Ethernet •
iSCSI • •
NAS • •
Unified (SAN/LAN) Ports
Virtualization
Virtual Device Context
VDC Support •
Number of VDCs 4
Storage VDC •
Overlay Transport Virtualization
Overlay Transport Virtualization •
OTV Unicast Transport Support •
OTV Site IPv6 Traffic •
Introduction