Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multicast multipathing in an IP overlay network
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Application No.: US14508779Application Date: 2014-10-07
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Publication No.: US09654385B2Publication Date: 2017-05-16
- Inventor: Kit Chiu Chu , Thomas J. Edsall , Navindra Yadav , Francisco M. Matus , Krishna Doddapaneni , Satyam Sinha , Sameer Merchant
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Polsinelli LLP
- Main IPC: H04L12/703
- IPC: H04L12/703 ; H04L12/26 ; H04L12/46 ; H04L12/741 ; H04L29/12 ; H04L12/751 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L12/58 ; H04L29/08 ; H04L12/707 ; H04L12/709 ; H04L12/723

Abstract:
The subject technology addresses the need in the art for improving utilization of network bandwidth in a multicast network environment. More specifically, the disclosed technology addresses the need in the art for extending multipathing to tenant multicast traffic in an IP overlay network, which enables the network to fully utilize available bandwidth for multicast traffic. In some examples, nodes in the overlay network may be connected by virtual or logical links, each of which corresponds to a path, perhaps through many physical links, in the underlying network.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150127701A1 MULTICAST MULTIPATHING IN AN IP OVERLAY NETWORK Public/Granted day:2015-05-07
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