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Feature Benefit
• Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP) tunneling interconnects two multicast-enabled
networks across nonmulticast networks. EMI is required.
• Fallback bridging forwards non-IP traffic between two or more VLANs. EMI is required.
Integrated Cisco IOS Software
Features for Bandwidth
Optimization
• Per-port broadcast, multicast, and unicast storm control prevents faulty end stations from degrading overall
systems performance.
• IEEE 802.1d Spanning Tree Protocol support for redundant backbone connections and loop-free networks
simplifies network configuration and improves fault tolerance.
• PVST+ allows for Layer 2 load sharing on redundant links to efficiently use the extra capacity inherent in a
redundant design.
• IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) allows a spanning-tree instance per VLAN, enabling
Layer 2 load sharing on redundant links.
• ECR provides load balancing and redundancy.
• Local Proxy Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) works in conjunction with Private VLAN Edge to
minimize broadcasts and maximize available bandwidth.
• VLAN1 minimization allows VLAN1 to be disabled on any individual VLAN trunk link.
• VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) pruning limits bandwidth consumption on VTP trunks by flooding
broadcast traffic only on trunk links required to reach the destination devices.
• IGMPv3 snooping provides fast client joins and leaves of multicast streams and limits bandwidth-intensive
video traffic to only the requestors.
• IGMP filtering provides multicast authentication by filtering out nonsubscribers and limits the number of
concurrent multicast streams available per port.
• Multicast VLAN registration (MVR) continuously sends multicast streams in a multicast VLAN while
isolating the streams from subscriber VLANs for bandwidth and security reasons.
QoS AND CONTROL
Advanced QoS
• Standard 802.1p CoS and DSCP field classification are provided, using marking and reclassification on a
per-packet basis by source and destination IP address, source and destination MAC address, or Layer 4 TCP
or UDP port number.
• Cisco control- and data-plane QoS ACLs on all ports help ensure proper marking on a per-packet basis.
• Four egress queues per port enable differentiated management of up to four traffic types across the stack.
• SRR scheduling ensures differential prioritization of packet flows by intelligently servicing the ingress and
egress queues.
• Weighted tail drop (WTD) provides congestion avoidance at the ingress and egress queues before a
disruption occurs.
• Strict priority queuing guarantees that the highest-priority packets are serviced ahead of all other traffic.
• There is no performance penalty for highly granular QoS functions.
Granular Rate Limiting
• The Cisco Committed Information Rate (CIR) function guarantees bandwidth in increments as low as
8 kbps.
• Rate limiting is provided based on source and destination IP address, source and destination MAC address,
Layer 4 TCP and UDP information, or any combination of these fields, using QoS ACLs (IP ACLs or MAC
ACLs), class maps, and policy maps.
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