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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
May. 06, 2002
Vinay Bannai, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Theodora Karali, Mountain View, CA (US);
Peter Geoffrey Jones, Campbell, CA (US);
Jacqueline M. Zoucha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Arun Sastry, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Vinay Bannai, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Theodora Karali, Mountain View, CA (US);
Peter Geoffrey Jones, Campbell, CA (US);
Jacqueline M. Zoucha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Arun Sastry, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Adtran, Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);
Abstract
Logical ports allow multiple customers to be connected to and to receive different services over a common physical port of a packet forwarding device. Such logical ports allow for customer separation and may be created based on VLAN ID and MPLS labels. In one embodiment, each service provided via a packet forwarding device is associated with a unique logical port. The logical port may span multiple physical ports.