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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2011
Hayim Porat, Tel Aviv, IL;
Hayim Porat, Tel Aviv, IL;
Tejas Networks Ltd, Bangalore, IN;
Abstract
A network apparatus includes a customer network portion having a customer premises equipment (CPE) bridge configured to connect to internal network entities of the customer network portion and to edge bridges of a provider network portion interconnecting separate customer network portions. The CPE bridge is configured to determine a transparent local area network service (TLS) for a packet received from one of the internal network entities based on a media access control (MAC) address of a destination of the packet in a different separate customer network portion. The CPE bridge is also configured to modify the packet to indicate the determined TLS, for the provider network portion to utilize to transmit the packet based on the determined TLS to a second CPE bridge associated with the destination, without the provider network utilizing the destination MAC address.