Dynamic traffic shaping adjustments for distributed multicast replication
US7912056B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 30, 2005 |
| Grant date | Mar 22, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 29, 2028 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L47/22
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A network device keeps track of multicast replication that is occurring at a later link in the network. The device may then intelligently adjust traffic to various end-users based on the bandwidth that is to be allotted to each end-user and based on the bandwidth that is expected to be “created” at the later link in the network. In one exemplary implementation, a device includes logic to process network traffic that includes multicast streams by performing traffic shaping functions that are based on, for each of a number of subscribers, a bandwidth of each of the multicast streams that is being subscribed to by a subscriber and a bandwidth of unicast traffic to the subscriber.
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