Multicast local breakout for customer premise equipment in a 5G wireless wireline convergence at an access gateway function

A network device, comprising:

• one or more memories;
• and
• one or more processors to:
• enable multicast local breakout for a first subscriber device and a second subscriber device;
• receive, from the first subscriber device, a first request to receive multicast data from a data network;
• receive, from the second subscriber device, a second request to receive the multicast data from the data network;
• create a first path and a second path for a subscriber device from a plurality of subscriber devices that include the first subscriber device and the second subscriber device,
• wherein the first path and the second path are created as a double barrel network handover to a data network for the subscriber device,
• wherein the first path is associated with a first network handover to a user plane function, and
• wherein the second path is associated with a second network handover directly to the data network when a connection with the user plane function is not available;
• determine whether the connection with the user plane function is available based on bidirectional forwarding detection or general packet radio service tunneling protocol tunnel heartbeats,
• wherein the user plane function is configured to replicate and tunnel the multicast data to the network device when the user plane function is available;
• receive, via the second path, the multicast data directly from the data network based on determining that the connection with the user plane function is unavailable and based on enabling the multicast local breakout;
• generate a copy of the multicast data based on determining that the connection with the user plane function is unavailable;
• and
• provide the multicast data to the first subscriber device and the copy of the multicast data to the second subscriber device.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions, the set of instructions comprising:

• one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a network device, cause the network device to:
• enable multicast local breakout for a first subscriber device and a second subscriber device;
• receive, from the first subscriber device, a first request to receive multicast data from a data network;
• receive, from the second subscriber device, a second request to receive the multicast data from the data network;
• create a first path and a second path for a subscriber device from a plurality of subscriber devices that include the first subscriber device and the second subscriber device,
• wherein the first path and the second path are created as a double barrel network handover to a data network for the subscriber device,
• wherein the first path is associated with a first network handover to a user plane function, and
• wherein the second path is associated with a second network handover directly to the data network when a connection with the user plane function is not available;
• determine that the connection with the user plane function is available or unavailable,
• wherein the user plane function is configured to replicate and tunnel the multicast data to the network device when the user plane function is available;
• provide, to the data network, a single join request for the multicast data based on determining that the connection with the user plane function is unavailable and based on enabling the multicast local breakout;
• receive the multicast data directly from the data network based on the single join request;
• generate a copy of the multicast data based on determining that the connection with the user plane function is unavailable;
• and
• provide the multicast data to the first subscriber device and the copy of the multicast data to the second subscriber device.