Camiant, Inc.

James Medlock

Yusun Kim Riley

Tarek Abou-Assali

Andrew R Bennett

Yusum Kim Riley

Andrew R Bennet

A method of operating a policy server connected to a network including a plurality of network termination devices and a plurality of CPEs (customer premises equipment) that are behind the plurality of network termination devices, the method including: polling the plurality of termination devices for data maintained by the termination devices; processing the polled data to generate topology information, the topology information identifying which CPEs are behind which termination devices; and storing the topology information in a topology data structure.

Topology discovery in broadband networks

A method of managing dynamic services that are provided over a network, the method involving: storing rules for controlling admission to the network; keeping track of state of the network; receiving a request for establishing a session over the network; and using both the stored rules and the state of the network to determine whether to grant the request for establishing the session.

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Harvard, MA, United States of America

James Medlock