BRKARC-3322

Catalyst 6500 IP Multicast Architecture

“IP Multicast & the Catalyst 6500 series are truly changing the way that we Live, Work, Play & Learn, by providing a hardware solution capable of delivering thousands of high bandwidth streams to multiple receivers simultaneously...”

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 Shawn Wargo - Technical Marketing Engineer

  Shawn has over 15 years of Networking & IT industry experience.

  Shawn has over 10 years of General & Platform IP Multicast experience.

  Shawn has been with Cisco Systems since 1999, and began within the 'LAN Switching' Technical Assistance Center (TAC), focused on supporting the Catalyst series Multi-Layer Switches.

  Shawn later became a Software QA (Test) Engineer for the (post-release Systems-Testing) Customer Operations Group (COG) - Financial Testing Lab (FTL) & Safe Harbor (SH) groups, working directly with dozens of Industry-leading financial & retail organizations.

  Shawn then moved from post-release Systems-Testing into pre-release Development-Testing as a senior Software QA (Test) Engineer, working directly with the latest Catalyst 6500 hardware & software (e.g. VS-S720-10GE & Virtual Switching System (VSS)).

  Shawn Wargo is currently a Technical Marketing Engineer (TME), within the Internet Systems Business Unit (ISBU), where he continues to support Catalyst 6500 customers by providing technical education & presentation on the latest hardware & software.

Speaker Bio

Session Agenda  Multicast Overview (~10-15m)

 Multicast Architecture (~10-15m)  Multicast Forwarding (~10-15m)  Multicast Replication (~10-15m)  Multicast Packet Walks (~20-30m)  Multicast on VSS (~15-20m)

 Multicast Debugging (~10-15m)