COMMUNICATION NETWORK METHOD AND APPARATUS

摘要

In a network communication system (300) a method and apparatus includes generating a record of state information (360) associated with a service connection (370), associating the record of state information (360) to a first (320-1) of an N processing units (320-1 through N), storing the associated record of state information (360) at a first (340-1) of an N memory units (340-1 through N) corresponding to the first processing unit (320-1), multicasting the associated record of state information (360) over an area network (310) to be received by at least one of a second through N (320-2 through N) of the N processing units (320-1 through N), and storing the associated record of state information (360) at one of the N memory units corresponding to the least one of the second through N processing units (320-2 through N).