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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2003
Yin Ling Liong, Woburn, MA (US);
Roberto Barnes, Espoo, FI;
Man LI, Bedford, MA (US);
Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
A policy server operates to configure differentiated services over multi-protocol label switching (Diffserv/MPLS) in a communications network. The policy server enables the definition and deployment of a customer policy, a network policy and a mapping policy. The policy server is arranged to create a group of MPLS tunnels, and associate the tunnels to the mapping policy and the customer policy. The customer policy includes a tunnel group identifier and a tunneling mode, and maps customer traffic to MPLS tunnels. The policy server translates the customer policy, the network policy and the mapping policy into device-specific commands, and then deploys the device-specific commands to the network interfaces of the affected network devices.