- Patent Title: Shortest path bridging (SPB)—protocol-independent multicast (PIM) interactions on a backbone edge bridge (BEB) acting as a multicast boundary router interfacing with a PIM network
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Application No.: US14549930Application Date: 2014-11-21
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Publication No.: US09762403B2Publication Date: 2017-09-12
- Inventor: Srikanth Keesara , Gautam Khera , Rama Suryanarayana Appalla
- Applicant: Avaya Inc.
- Agency: Ropes & Gray LLP
- Main IPC: H04L12/18
- IPC: H04L12/18 ; H04L12/721 ; H04L12/761

Abstract:
A method apparatus and computer readable medium for preforming SPB-PIM multicast interactions is presented. A Backbone Edge Bridge (BEB) in a Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) network discovers a multicast stream originating within a Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM) network. The BEB sends multicast information to a Rendezvous Point (RP) in the PIM network. The BEB advertises a multicast stream learned from the RP into the SPB network. The BEB receives an update that includes a receiver interest in said multicast stream and initiates PIM join procedures for permitting the receiver to receive the multicast stream.
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