SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING TRAFFIC LOSS WHILE USING LOOP FREE ALTERNATE ROUTES FOR MULTICAST ONLY FAST REROUTE (MOFRR)

摘要

A system, method and apparatus for adapting operation of a router configured to receive commonly sourced traffic via primary and secondary Upstream Multicast Hop (UMH) links, wherein the secondary path is cached for a predetermined period of time to avoid data loss upon restoration of the primary path.