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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2010
Tong Liu, Acton, MA (US);
Yie-fong Dan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Pawel Sowinski, Northborough, MA (US);
Chad Mikkelson, Arlington, MA (US);
William Beebee, Lowell, MA (US);
Tong Liu, Acton, MA (US);
Yie-Fong Dan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Pawel Sowinski, Northborough, MA (US);
Chad Mikkelson, Arlington, MA (US);
William Beebee, Lowell, MA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system includes a forwarding engine to schedule when replicas of a received multicast packet are forwarded towards one or more multicast recipients. The system also includes an egress interface device to replicate the multicast packet and forward the multicast packet replica towards the one or more multicast recipients when prompted by the forwarding engine based on the scheduling.