Alcatel Lucent

Gunter Van De Velde

Andrew Dolganow

Mustapha Aissaoui

Wim Henderickx

Praveen Vasant Muley

Martin Vigoureux

Thierry Van De Velde

Adam Simpson

Raja Sahney

Praveen Muley

A network node adapted to forward incoming data packets, the network node including a tag identifying unit, adapted to identify a tag of an incoming data packet as a replicate tag; a tag look-up module, adapted to retrieve from a tag table a number of replications and destinations for the replicate tag; a replicating engine, configured to replicate the incoming data packet according to the number of replications, thereby generating replicated data packets; and a forwarding unit, adapted to forward the replicated data packets to the destinations.

Network node for network based multicast replication

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Antwerp, Belgium

Gunter Van De Velde