[c-nsp] IPTV Switch Recommendation

2009-06-10 Thread Paul Stewart
Hi there. We have a customer that does lots of IPTV - they have a new deployment currently going into an MDU (condos). They have asked for a recommended switch that is IPTV friendly - I'm presuming they mean multicast aware etc. Which Cisco switches would be recommended to handoff

Re: [c-nsp] IPTV Switch Recommendation

2009-06-10 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Paul Stewart wrote: Which Cisco switches would be recommended to handoff approximately 20 Cat5 drops fed by fiber coming in? 3560/3750 seems to work well for this. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se ___ cisco-nsp

Re: [c-nsp] IPTV Switch Recommendation

2009-06-10 Thread Edward Salonia
Take a look at the ME3400 series. - Ed --Original Message-- From: Paul Stewart Sender: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: [c-nsp] IPTV Switch Recommendation Sent: Jun 10, 2009 1:25 PM Hi there. We have a customer that does lots of IPTV

Re: [c-nsp] IPTV Switch Recommendation

2009-06-10 Thread Chris Knipe
On 10/06/09 13:25 -0400, Paul Stewart wrote: We have a customer that does lots of IPTV - they have a new deployment currently going into an MDU (condos). They have asked for a recommended switch that is IPTV friendly - I'm presuming they mean multicast aware etc. Which Cisco switches would

Re: [c-nsp] IPTV Switch Recommendation

2009-06-10 Thread Jeff Kell
Chris Knipe wrote: We're going through the same story at this stage. Working with allot of vendors, testing, and trails. So far for us, a combination of entry level 2960s and 3560s are working fine. You are correct, the most important thing is Multicast and IGMP subscriptions, so pretty

Re: [c-nsp] IPTV Switch Recommendation

2009-06-10 Thread Chris Knipe
On 10/06/09 14:27 -0400, Jeff Kell wrote: Chris Knipe wrote: We're going through the same story at this stage. Working with allot of vendors, testing, and trails. So far for us, a combination of entry level 2960s and 3560s are working fine. You are correct, the most important thing is

Re: [c-nsp] IPTV Switch Recommendation

2009-06-10 Thread Ryan Hughes
It depends - largely on the type of Multicast you're rolling out. I had mixed results with 3560's running IP Base versus IP Services for SSM/AutoRP roll out. Depending on your requirements you could maybe get IP Base to work but best results were with IP Services. Ryan On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at

Re: [c-nsp] IPTV Switch Recommendation

2009-06-10 Thread amgnetforums
Ryan Hughes wrote: It depends - largely on the type of Multicast you're rolling out. I had mixed results with 3560's running IP Base versus IP Services for SSM/AutoRP roll out. Depending on your requirements you could maybe get IP Base to work but best results were with IP Services. Ryan On

Re: [c-nsp] IPTV Switch Recommendation

2009-06-10 Thread Tarko Tikan
hey, We have a customer that does lots of IPTV - they have a new deployment currently going into an MDU (condos). They have asked for a recommended switch that is IPTV friendly - I'm presuming they mean multicast aware etc. I have been down this road - don't waste your time with cheaper