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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
May. 15, 2008
Prashanth Venugopal, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian Kean, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Prashanth Venugopal, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian Kean, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A method for providing Quality of Service (QoS) for a Multilink Protocol (MP) subscriber at the subscriber level is described. In one embodiment of the invention, a network element fragments a packet destined for a subscriber into multiple fragments and adds any necessary encapsulations (e.g., MP protocol encapsulation, Point-to-Point protocol encapsulation, layer 2 encapsulations). The network element links the fragments together to form a MP batch packet. The network element sends the MP batch packet to a single egress queue associated with the subscriber. The fragments are distributively transmitted across the links associated with the subscriber. Other methods and apparatuses are also described herein.