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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2019
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Raghunadha Reddy Pocha, Bengaluru, IN;
Sateesh Reddy Mommidi, Bangalore, IN;
Ravi Sankar Mantha, Bangalore, IN;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An enhanced, fixed broadband access network-mobile network integration for integrating fixed broadband access networks and mobile networks may include a network node having a Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) User Plane (UP) (BNG-UP) function operative to serve as a Branching Point (BP) User Plane Function (UPF). The network node may include a network interface to interface with a Control Plane (CP) for session management and a network interface to interface with a BNG Control Plane (BNG-CP) function. The network node may be configured to process UP traffic based on one or more sets of rules, to forward first UP traffic towards a first UPF to a Data Network (DN) and to forward second UP traffic towards a second UPF to a Local Area Data Network (LADN). Sessions with the CP for session management and the BNG-CP may be identified as related sessions for appropriate processing of the UP traffic.