MULTICAST TRAFFIC DISTRIBUTION IN A MULTI-POD NETWORK ENVIRONMENT

• Main Authors: Shirshyad Mahesh, Shetty Nikhil Gopinath, Gaggara Siva, Bandaru Bharat Kumar, Thyamagundalu Sanjay
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 29.09.2016
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

An example method for to multicast traffic distribution in a multi-pod network environment is provided and includes provisioning a block of multicast group addresses for broadcast, unknown unicast and multicast (BUM) traffic distribution between pods in the multi-pod network, calculating a hash corresponding to a bridge domain (BD) extending across a plurality of pods in the multi-pod network, the hash being identically calculated at each one of the plurality of pod, indexing with the hash into the block of multicast group addresses designated for inter-pod BUM traffic to derive a global multicast group identical for the broadcast domain across the plurality of pods, and associating a local multicast group at the translator with the derived global multicast group.