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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2014
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Kit Chiu Chu, Fremont, CA (US);
Thomas J. Edsall, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Navindra Yadav, Cupertino, CA (US);
Francisco M. Matus, Saratoga, CA (US);
Krishna Doddapaneni, Cupertino, CA (US);
Satyam Sinha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sameer Merchant, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The subject technology addresses the need in the art for improving utilization of network bandwidth in a multicast network environment. More specifically, the disclosed technology addresses the need in the art for extending multipathing to tenant multicast traffic in an IP overlay network, which enables the network to fully utilize available bandwidth for multicast traffic. In some examples, nodes in the overlay network may be connected by virtual or logical links, each of which corresponds to a path, perhaps through many physical links, in the underlying network.