公开(公告)号：US20220360462A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-10

申请号：US17307264

申请日：2021-05-04

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Roshan Lal ,  Anuj Budhiraja

IPC: H04L12/18

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for logical flow aggregation for fragmented multicast flows, the methods including the steps of identifying a plurality of fragmented multicast flows that are logically related as a single flow in a multicast network; generating a plurality of multicast joins associated with the plurality of fragmented multicast flows, wherein each multicast join of the plurality of multicast joins includes a join attribute comprising a common flow identifier that identifies the plurality of fragmented multicast flows as logically related; and selecting a reverse forwarding path toward an upstream device for the plurality of multicast joins.

公开(公告)号：US20220286752A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-08

申请号：US17751112

申请日：2022-05-23

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Ali Sajassi ,  Samir Thoria ,  Tapraj Singh ,  Mankamana Prasad Mishra

IPC: H04N21/6405 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04N21/24 ,  H04N21/222 ,  H04L65/611

Abstract: A method is performed by a first provider edge (PE) of a redundancy group including provider edges configured with an Ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) segment identifier (EVI) and an Ethernet segment identifier (ESI) and that are multi-homed to a customer edge (CE). The method includes, upon receiving from the CE a join request including a group address for a multicast stream, electing a designated forwarder (DF) for the multicast stream. The electing includes: computing for each PE a respective affinity for the DF as a function of a respective address of the PE, the EVI, and the group address; and determining which PE has a largest affinity. The method further includes, if the first PE has the largest affinity or does not have the largest affinity, configuring the first PE as the designated forwarder or not configuring the first PE as the designated forwarder for the multicast stream, respectively.

公开(公告)号：US11296899B2

公开(公告)日：2022-04-05

申请号：US16289455

申请日：2019-02-28

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Jayashree Subramanian ,  Stig Ingvar Venaas ,  Rishabh Parekh ,  Ravindran Rajarao

IPC: H04L12/18 ,  H04L12/761 ,  H04L12/773 ,  H04L45/16 ,  H04L45/60

Abstract: In an example method for redundant multicast trees with fast recovery, a protocol independent multicast (PIM) backup designated router (BDR) can receive a request from a host to join a multicast group associated with a source; send to a next hop a PIM join message identifying an address of the PIM BDR and identifying the PIM join message as a backup PIM join; receive, from a PIM router along a path to/from the source, a unicast message sent to the address which identifies a second address associated with the PIM router; store the second address and a route associated with the unicast message; in response to a designated router migration trigger, set to blocking a backup multicast tree state associated with the source and multicast group; and send, to the PIM router, a unicast message including instructions to set to blocking a backup multicast tree state at the PIM router.

公开(公告)号：US11159337B1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-26

申请号：US16858978

申请日：2020-04-27

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Ali Sajassi ,  Ijsbrand Wijnands ,  Krishnaswamy Muddenahally Ananthamurthy ,  Jayashree Subramanian

IPC: H04L12/18 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L12/741 ,  H04L12/913 ,  H04L12/761

Abstract: A networking environment includes a first node and a second node configured as Ethernet Virtual Private Networking (EVPN) peers on an EVPN subnet that is coupled to a Layer 3 VPN over a core network. The first node receives a first multicast join request from a third node in the core network, the first multicast join request including a source address and multicast group address of a source of a multicast stream. The first node determines that the source address and the multicast group address for the source are behind the EVPN subnet at the second node. The first node sends to the second node, a control plane join request message that includes a receiver identifier that identifies the third node as a receiver of the multicast stream, the receiver identifier enabling the second node to forward the multicast stream directly into the core network to the third node.

公开(公告)号：US20210092056A1

公开(公告)日：2021-03-25

申请号：US16582906

申请日：2019-09-25

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： IJsbrand Wijnands ,  Lukas Krattiger ,  Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Brian Christopher Farnham

IPC: H04L12/723 ,  H04L12/18 ,  H04L12/751 ,  G06F16/22

Abstract: In one embodiment, a first label-distribution-protocol (LDP) session is established between a first interface of a first computing device and a second computing device, while a second LDP session is established between a second interface and the second computing device. The method may further comprise receiving a request from a third computing device to subscribe to a multicast group, storing an association between a first label, the multicast group, and the first interface, and sending, to the second computing device via the first LDP session, an indication that the first label is associated with the multicast group. Further, the method may include receiving a request from a fourth computing device to subscribe to the multicast group, storing an association between a second label, the multicast group and, the second interface, and sending, via the second LDP session, an indication that the second label is associated with the multicast group.

公开(公告)号：US20210014159A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-14

申请号：US17038204

申请日：2020-09-30

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Pascal Thubert ,  IJsbrand Wijnands ,  Krishnaswamy Ananthamurthy ,  Ramakrishnan Chokkanathapuram Sundaram ,  Stig Ingvar Venaas

IPC: H04L12/721 ,  H04L12/761 ,  H04L12/749 ,  H04L12/755 ,  H04L12/753

Abstract: In one illustrative example, a network node connected in a network fabric may identify that it is established as part of a multicast distribution tree for forwarding multicast traffic from a source node to one or more host receiver devices of a multicast group. In response, the network node may propagate in the network fabric a message for advertising the network node as a candidate local source node at which to join the multicast group. The message for advertising may include data such as a reachability metric. The propagation of the message may be part of a flooding of such messages in the network fabric. The network node serving as the candidate local source node may thereafter “locally” join a host receiver device in the multicast group at the network node so that the device may receive the multicast traffic from the source node via the network node.

公开(公告)号：US10862697B2

公开(公告)日：2020-12-08

申请号：US16293447

申请日：2019-03-05

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Ali Sajassi ,  Samir Thoria ,  Ijsbrand Wijnands ,  Lester C Ginsberg

IPC: H04L12/18 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04L12/751 ,  H04L12/721 ,  H04L12/801

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for controlling multicast traffic flows through provider edge routers. In some examples, a multicast traffic of one or more multicast traffic flows is received from a multicast source at a first provider edge router of a plurality of provider edge routers. A multicast routing message including a loopback address of the first provider edge router can be originated at the first provider edge router. The multicast routing message can be flooded into a multicast core network for controlling traffic in the one or more multicast flows through the multicast core network to the first provider edge router. Subsequently, multicast joins can be received at the first provider edge router for establishing the one or more multicast flows through the multicast core network based on the multicast routing message including the loopback address of the first provider edge router.

公开(公告)号：US20200252333A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-06

申请号：US16268953

申请日：2019-02-06

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Pascal Thubert ,  IJsbrand Wijnands ,  Krishnaswamy Ananthamurthy ,  Ramakrishnan Chokkanathapuram Sundaram ,  Stig Ingvar Venaas

IPC: H04L12/721 ,  H04L12/761 ,  H04L12/753 ,  H04L12/755 ,  H04L12/749

Abstract: In one illustrative example, a network node connected in a network fabric may identify that it is established as part of a multicast distribution tree for forwarding multicast traffic from a source node to one or more host receiver devices of a multicast group. In response, the network node may propagate in the network fabric a message for advertising the network node as a candidate local source node at which to join the multicast group. The message for advertising may include data such as a reachability metric. The propagation of the message may be part of a flooding of such messages in the network fabric. The network node serving as the candidate local source node may thereafter “locally” join a host receiver device in the multicast group at the network node so that the device may receive the multicast traffic from the source node via the network node.

公开(公告)号：US20250133010A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-24

申请号：US18492890

申请日：2023-10-24

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Nitin Kumar ,  Luc De Ghein ,  Anuj Budhiraja ,  Vinish Ramachandran

IPC: H04L45/00 ,  H04L45/02

Abstract: In some aspects, a method for establishing a multicast-only Fast Re-Route (FRR) (MoFRR) path between a source node and a receiving node in a network, the method includes receiving, by a merged receiving node, a plurality of data packets in a data flow comprising an FRR indicator, wherein the merged receiving node is configured to identify an FRR path for data transmission to the source node, extracting, by the merged receiving node, from the FRR indicator, an identification of the source node as a destination of the data transmission, and a first identifier identifying a first data packet as part of a first flow of a MoFRR, and a second identifier identifying a second data packet as part of a second flow of a MoFRR, transmitting, by the receiving node, the first data packet along a primary data path and the second data packet along a secondary data path.

公开(公告)号：US20250119389A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-10

申请号：US18985763

申请日：2024-12-18

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Nitin Kumar ,  Ali Sajassi ,  Swadesh Agrawal

IPC: H04L45/16 ,  H04L12/18 ,  H04L45/00 ,  H04L45/50

Abstract: A system and associated methods provide solutions for reducing a volume of traffic through a multicast network attributed to repeated maintenance messages, which are required in order to maintain a multicast connection. The system configures provider edge devices to generate and send maintenance messages on behalf of members of a multicast group to establish and maintain the multicast connection and provides options for determining unknown locations of sources and/or subscribers, thereby reducing the overall volume of traffic transmitted over the multicast network.