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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2013
Applicant:
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Inventor:
Jaffar Hameed Abdul Kather Jilani, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/761 (2013.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/16 (2013.01); H04L 45/66 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to forwarding multicast packets among disparate Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs). An embodiment receives a multicast packet matching registration criteria of one or more ports and forwards the multicast packet to the one or more ports, wherein the one or more ports are in a different VLAN than a port from which the multicast packet was received.