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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2009
Avoy K. Nanda, Milpitas, CA (US);
Kunal R. Shah, Mountain View, CA (US);
Avoy K. Nanda, Milpitas, CA (US);
Kunal R. Shah, Mountain View, CA (US);
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A method and apparatus of dynamically distributing multicast stream to different hosts on a link-aggregation-group is described. A network element receives, on a link-aggregation-group, multicast requests and determines the bandwidth for that request by the information stored in the request. The network element further allocates bandwidth requirement on the least utilized link in link-aggregation-group. The network element additionally updates a forwarding table to indicate that the multicast stream in that request is to be forward out the allocated link.