[AG-TECH] What's typical loss on multicast video/audio?

[Markus Buchhorn]

At 18:21 18/02/2004 -0700, Steven Woolsey wrote:
>We had a similar problem.  Turned out that the switch which connected our site to the outside world was throttled back from full capacity, 

That also reminds me - we once had an older edge switch, L2/L3, which did IGMP snooping. Did a great job at unicast (100Mb/s - line rate across all ports), but couldn't sustain high multicast rates (30Mb/s max, from memory). It also seemed to pulse in performance, just to really confuse things. Discovered it when I borrowed the switch for something else and stuck in a dumb hub, and the hub dramatically outperformed it! :-)

Cheers,
        Markus


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