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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2014
Richard Vetter, Succasunna, NJ (US);
Tomas S. Young, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Bruno Landais, Pleumeur-Bodou, FR;
Claude Jacob, La Chapelle des Fongeretz, FR;
Richard Vetter, Succasunna, NJ (US);
Tomas S. Young, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Bruno Landais, Pleumeur-Bodou, FR;
Claude Jacob, La Chapelle des Fongeretz, FR;
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A method of facilitating multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMS) in a communications network including one or more first evolved node Bs (eNBs) having backhaul interfaces for a first internet protocol (IP) version and one or more second eNBs having backhaul interfaces for a second IP version includes receiving, at a first network element, an initial MBMS content stream; generating, at the first network element, based on the initial MBMS content stream, a first MBMS content stream and a second MBMS content stream; transmitting the first MBMS content stream from the first network element to the one or more first eNBs using a first IP multicast address of the first IP version; and transmitting the second MBMS content stream from the first network element to the one or more second eNBs using a second IP multicast address of the second IP version.