Richard C Vetter

20160014572, Jan 14, 2016

Jul 10, 2014

14/328249

Richard VETTER - Succasunna NJ, US
Tomas S. YOUNG - Parsippany NJ, US
Bruno LANDAIS - Pleumeur-Bodou, FR
Claude JACOB - La Chapelle des Fongeretz, FR

H04W 4/06

A method of facilitating multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMS) in a communications network including one or more first evolved node Bs (eNBs) having backhaul interfaces for a first internet protocol (IP) version and one or more second eNBs having backhaul interfaces for a second IP version includes receiving, at a first network element, an initial MBMS content stream; generating, at the first network element, based on the initial MBMS content stream, a first MBMS content stream and a second MBMS content stream; transmitting the first MBMS content stream from the first network element to the one or more first eNBs using a first IP multicast address of the first IP version; and transmitting the second MBMS content stream from the first network element to the one or more second eNBs using a second IP multicast address of the second IP version.