公开(公告)号：US11509572B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-22

申请号：US17038204

申请日：2020-09-30

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Pascal Thubert ,  Ijsbrand Wijnands ,  Krishnaswamy Ananthamurthy ,  Ramakrishnan Chokkanathapuram Sundaram ,  Stig Ingvar Venaas

IPC: H04L12/28 ,  H04L45/00 ,  H04L45/16 ,  H04L45/741 ,  H04L45/021 ,  H04L45/48

Abstract: In one illustrative example, a network node connected in a network fabric may identify that it is established as part of a multicast distribution tree for forwarding multicast traffic from a source node to one or more host receiver devices of a multicast group. In response, the network node may propagate in the network fabric a message for advertising the network node as a candidate local source node at which to join the multicast group. The message for advertising may include data such as a reachability metric. The propagation of the message may be part of a flooding of such messages in the network fabric. The network node serving as the candidate local source node may thereafter “locally” join a host receiver device in the multicast group at the network node so that the device may receive the multicast traffic from the source node via the network node.

公开(公告)号：US11349891B1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-31

申请号：US17220153

申请日：2021-04-01

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Rajiv Asati ,  Nitin Kumar ,  Luc De Ghein

IPC: H04L65/611 ,  H04L65/60

Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for configuring an edge router of a communication provider network, the edge router coupled to communicate with a plurality of media streaming playback devices. Based at least in part on an indication of characteristics associated with the plurality of media streaming playback devices, a first multicast join for the edge router is configured to the communication provider network such that one or more media servers delivers a first plurality of media streams to the edge router via the communication provider network. Based at least in part on an indication of a request for an additional media stream not included in the first plurality of media streams, a second multicast join for the edge router is configured to the communication provider network such that the one or more media servers delivers the additional media stream to the edge router via the communication provider network.

公开(公告)号：US20210336811A1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-28

申请号：US16858978

申请日：2020-04-27

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Ali Sajassi ,  Ijsbrand Wijnands ,  Krishnaswamy Muddenahally Ananthamurthy ,  Jayashree Subramanian

IPC: H04L12/18 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04L12/761 ,  H04L12/741 ,  H04L12/913 ,  H04L29/06

Abstract: A networking environment includes a first node and a second node configured as Ethernet Virtual Private Networking (EVPN) peers on an EVPN subnet that is coupled to a Layer 3 VPN over a core network. The first node receives a first multicast join request from a third node in the core network, the first multicast join request including a source address and multicast group address of a source of a multicast stream. The first node determines that the source address and the multicast group address for the source are behind the EVPN subnet at the second node. The first node sends to the second node, a control plane join request message that includes a receiver identifier that identifies the third node as a receiver of the multicast stream, the receiver identifier enabling the second node to forward the multicast stream directly into the core network to the third node.

公开(公告)号：US20210243113A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-05

申请号：US17234115

申请日：2021-04-19

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Francesco Meo ,  Stig Ingvar Venaas ,  Rahul Savarapu Parameswaran ,  Ramakrishnan Chokkanathapuram Sundaram ,  Mankamana Prasad Mishra

IPC: H04L12/761 ,  H04L12/721 ,  H04L12/729

Abstract: A router node may be configured for communication of multicast traffic in a network fabric which may include a plurality of spine nodes interconnected to a plurality of leaf nodes. The router node may be configured as one of the leaf nodes and serve as a first hop router for multicast traffic. At the router node, a message for flooding the network fabric may be sent based on an indication of communication of multicast traffic for a multicast group from a source device. The message may include at least one spine node identifier of at least one preferred spine node joined to the multicast group at the router node. The message may be for indicating, to at least one of the leaf nodes, to prioritize joining to the multicast group at the at least one preferred spine node according to at least one spine node identifier.

公开(公告)号：US11038794B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-15

申请号：US16453044

申请日：2019-06-26

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Francesco Meo ,  Stig Ingvar Venaas ,  Rahul Savarapu Parameswaran ,  Ramakrishnan Chokkanathapuram Sundaram ,  Mankamana Prasad Mishra

IPC: H04L12/761 ,  H04L12/721 ,  H04L12/729

Abstract: A router node may be configured for communication of multicast traffic in a network fabric which may include a plurality of spine nodes interconnected to a plurality of leaf nodes. The router node may be configured as one of the leaf nodes and serve as a first hop router for multicast traffic. At the router node, a message for flooding the network fabric may be sent based on an indication of communication of multicast traffic for a multicast group from a source device. The message may include at least one spine node identifier of at least one preferred spine node joined to the multicast group at the router node. The message may be for indicating, to at least one of the leaf nodes, to prioritize joining to the multicast group at the at least one preferred spine node according to at least one spine node identifier.

公开(公告)号：US20200287737A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-10

申请号：US16293447

申请日：2019-03-05

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Ali Sajassi ,  Samir Thoria ,  Ijsbrand Wijnands ,  Lester C. Ginsberg

IPC: H04L12/18 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04L12/801 ,  H04L12/721 ,  H04L12/751

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for controlling multicast traffic flows through provider edge routers. In some examples, a multicast traffic of one or more multicast traffic flows is received from a multicast source at a first provider edge router of a plurality of provider edge routers. A multicast routing message including a loopback address of the first provider edge router can be originated at the first provider edge router. The multicast routing message can be flooded into a multicast core network for controlling traffic in the one or more multicast flows through the multicast core network to the first provider edge router. Subsequently, multicast joins can be received at the first provider edge router for establishing the one or more multicast flows through the multicast core network based on the multicast routing message including the loopback address of the first provider edge router.

公开(公告)号：US20200280455A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-03

申请号：US16289455

申请日：2019-02-28

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Jayashree Subramanian ,  Stig Ingvar Venaas ,  Rishabh Parekh ,  Ravindran Rajarao

IPC: H04L12/18 ,  H04L12/773 ,  H04L12/761

Abstract: In an example method for redundant multicast trees with fast recovery, a protocol independent multicast (PIM) backup designated router (BDR) can receive a request from a host to join a multicast group associated with a source; send to a next hop a PIM join message identifying an address of the PIM BDR and identifying the PIM join message as a backup PIM join; receive, from a PIM router along a path to/from the source, a unicast message sent to the address which identifies a second address associated with the PIM router; store the second address and a route associated with the unicast message; in response to a designated router migration trigger, set to blocking a backup multicast tree state associated with the source and multicast group; and send, to the PIM router, a unicast message including instructions to set to blocking a backup multicast tree state at the PIM router.

公开(公告)号：US10681425B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-09

申请号：US15827376

申请日：2017-11-30

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Ali Sajassi ,  Samir Thoria ,  Tapraj Singh ,  Mankamana Prasad Mishra

IPC: H04N21/6405 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04N21/24 ,  H04N21/222 ,  H04W8/00

Abstract: A method is performed by a first provider edge (PE) of a redundancy group including provider edges configured with an Ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) segment identifier (EVI) and an Ethernet segment identifier (ESI) and that are multi-homed to a customer edge (CE). The method includes, upon receiving from the CE a join request including a group address for a multicast stream, electing a designated forwarder (DF) for the multicast stream. The electing includes: computing for each PE a respective affinity for the DF as a function of a respective address of the PE, the EVI, and the group address; and determining which PE has a largest affinity. The method further includes, if the first PE has the largest affinity or does not have the largest affinity, configuring the first PE as the designated forwarder or not configuring the first PE as the designated forwarder for the multicast stream, respectively.

公开(公告)号：US20190166407A1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-30

申请号：US15827376

申请日：2017-11-30

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Ali Sajassi ,  Samir Thoria ,  Tapraj Singh ,  Mankamana Prasad Mishra

IPC: H04N21/6405 ,  H04W8/00 ,  H04L12/46

CPC classification number: H04N21/6405 ,  H04L12/4641 ,  H04L65/4076 ,  H04N21/222 ,  H04N21/2402 ,  H04N21/2405 ,  H04W8/005

Abstract: A method is performed by a first provider edge (PE) of a redundancy group including provider edges configured with an Ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) segment identifier (EVI) and an Ethernet segment identifier (ESI) and that are multi-homed to a customer edge (CE). The method includes, upon receiving from the CE a join request including a group address for a multicast stream, electing a designated forwarder (DF) for the multicast stream. The electing includes: computing for each PE a respective affinity for the DF as a function of a respective address of the PE, the EVI, and the group address; and determining which PE has a largest affinity. The method further includes, if the first PE has the largest affinity or does not have the largest affinity, configuring the first PE as the designated forwarder or not configuring the first PE as the designated forwarder for the multicast stream, respectively.

公开(公告)号：US12273187B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-08

申请号：US18321854

申请日：2023-05-23

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Nagendra Kumar Nainar ,  Carlos M. Pignataro ,  Ijsbrand Wijnands

IPC: H04L45/745 ,  H04L1/00

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to BIER forwarding over varying BSL domains, the methods including the steps of receiving, at a border node, a packet comprising a BIER header having a BIER bit string with a first bit string length; reading an incoming label of the packet comprising instructions to split the BIER header into a plurality of smaller headers associated with a plurality of smaller bit strings; generating a set of split bit masks; performing a separate bitwise AND operation on each split bit mask and the BIER bit string to generate the plurality of smaller bit strings, each copied to a corresponding smaller header of the plurality of smaller headers; and performing a lookup for each of the plurality of smaller headers on a respective forwarding table to determine one or more egress routers to which to transmit the packet.