Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Bit index explicit replication (BIER)forwarding for network device components
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Application No.: US14753313Application Date: 2015-06-29
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Publication No.: US09705784B2Publication Date: 2017-07-11
- Inventor: Zhaohui Zhang , Alex Baban
- Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Harrity & Harrity, LLP
- Main IPC: H04L12/761
- IPC: H04L12/761 ; H04L12/935 ; H04L12/931

Abstract:
A network device receives multicast packets that include information identifying destinations in the network, identifies next hops associated with the destinations, and populates a cache with the destinations and addresses of the identified next hops. The network device receives a particular multicast packet that includes information identifying particular destinations included in the cache, identifies one or more next hops for the particular destinations from the cache, and forwards the particular multicast packet to the identified one or more next hops to permit the identified one or more next hops to forward the multicast packet toward the particular destinations.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160191372A1 BIT INDEX EXPLICIT REPLICATION (BIER)FORWARDING FOR NETWORK DEVICE COMPONENTS Public/Granted day:2016-06-30
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