Dynamic Multicast State Aggregation In Transport Networks

摘要

A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing dynamic multicast state aggregation in transport networks is presented. An ingress sender node and a set of egress receiver nodes for each of a plurality of multicast streams within a network are identified and assigned a unique address. This unique same address is used in the forwarding table in the core of the network for any set of multicast streams that traverse the network from the same ingress sender node to the same set of egress receiver nodes.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method in which a computer system performs operations comprising:
identifying an ingress sender node and a set of egress receiver nodes for each of a plurality of multicast streams within a network; and for any set of multicast streams that traverse said network from the same ingress sender node to the same set of egress receiver nodes, use a same address in the forwarding table in the core of said network.