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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2000
Kenneth M. Buckland, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Kenneth M. Buckland, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for processing traffic in an access network includes receiving a plurality of ingress traffic streams from customer premise equipment (CPE). Each ingress traffic stream includes a plurality of Internet Protocol (IP) packets having an IP address. The ingress traffic streams are aggregated into a combined traffic stream without regard to the IP addresses. The combined traffic stream is transmitted to a backbone network for routing based on the IP addresses. An egress traffic stream is received from the backbone network and includes a plurality of IP packets each having an IP address. A CPE port is determined for each IP packet based on its IP address. The IP packets are routed to their respective CPE ports and transmitted to their destination CPEs.