公开(公告)号：US10484303B2

公开(公告)日：2019-11-19

申请号：US15689027

申请日：2017-08-29

Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventor： Gregory J. Shepherd ,  Ijsbrand Wijnands ,  Neale Ranns ,  David Ward ,  Michael Francis O'Gorman

IPC: H04L12/931 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L12/18 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L12/761

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a host node comprising a tenant multicast application with a single tenant deployment, an encapsulated multicast packet over unicast at a virtual replicator, the encapsulated multicast packet comprising receiver information for the virtual replicator, replicating the encapsulated multicast packet at the virtual replicator, and transmitting the encapsulated multicast packet over unicast to a plurality of receiving nodes based on the receiver information. The receiving nodes comprise the tenant multicast application and the virtual replicator operates in a cloud without multicast capability. An apparatus is also disclosed herein.

公开(公告)号：US20190068524A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-28

申请号：US15689027

申请日：2017-08-29

Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventor： Gregory J. Shepherd ,  Ijsbrand Wijnands ,  Neale Ranns ,  David Ward ,  Michael Francis O'Gorman

IPC: H04L12/931

CPC classification number: H04L49/201 ,  H04L12/184 ,  H04L12/189 ,  H04L45/16 ,  H04L49/70 ,  H04L67/1002 ,  H04L67/1095 ,  H04L69/163

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a host node comprising a tenant multicast application with a single tenant deployment, an encapsulated multicast packet over unicast at a virtual replicator, the encapsulated multicast packet comprising receiver information for the virtual replicator, replicating the encapsulated multicast packet at the virtual replicator, and transmitting the encapsulated multicast packet over unicast to a plurality of receiving nodes based on the receiver information. The receiving nodes comprise the tenant multicast application and the virtual replicator operates in a cloud without multicast capability. An apparatus is also disclosed herein.