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
