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Patent Inventor Names
Pauline Shuen0
James P. Rivers0
Date of Patent
September 15, 2009
0Patent Application Number
112832690
Date Filed
November 18, 2005
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
A method and apparatus utilized in layer 2 access switches of an Ethernet ring-based network to bridge multicast packets between a multicast VLAN and a selected VLAN coupled to a VLAN trunk port of the layer 2 access switch. The duplication of multicast streams over the ring technology is avoided while maintaining isolation between subscribers.
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