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David Ward0
Gregory J. Shepherd0
Ijsbrand Wijnands0
Michael Francis O'Gorman0
Neale Ranns0
Date of Patent
November 19, 2019
0Patent Application Number
156890270
Date Filed
August 29, 2017
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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.
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