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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2017
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Ijsbrand Wijnands, Leuven, BE;
Thomas Kernen, Russin, CH;
Gregory J. Shepherd, Eugene, OR (US);
Neale D. R. Ranns, Basingstoke, GB;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and network devices are disclosed for replication and switching of Internet Protocol (IP) packets in professional media networks. In one embodiment, a method includes encapsulating a unicast IP packet with a packet bit array and forwarding the encapsulated packet via a replication fabric within a network. In this embodiment, each receiver of a plurality of receivers reachable via the replication fabric is represented by a relative bit position in the packet bit array, a respective IP address is assigned to each receiver of the plurality of receivers, and the replication fabric is adapted to store disposition information mapping a relative bit position representing one or more of the plurality of receivers to IP addresses assigned to the one or more of the plurality of receivers. An embodiment of a network device includes a processor operably coupled to a network interface and adapted to perform steps of the method.