公开(公告)号：US11956143B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-09

申请号：US17931990

申请日：2022-09-14

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Nicklous Dale Morris ,  David Taft ,  Luay Jalil

IPC: H04L69/22 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L45/16

CPC classification number: H04L45/16 ,  H04L5/0055 ,  H04L69/22

Abstract: A source network device may receive a multicast data stream to be provided to a plurality of network devices of a network, and may generate, for the multicast data stream, a segment routing header that identifies the plurality of network devices to be provided the multicast data stream. The source network device may cause the multicast data stream to be serially provided to the plurality of network devices identified in the segment routing header without requiring the plurality of network devices to store and reconstruct the segment routing header and without requiring the plurality of network devices to maintain state.