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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2010
Nick Delregno, Rowlett, TX (US);
Scott R. Kotrla, Wylie, TX (US);
David E. Mcdysan, Great Falls, VA (US);
Michael U. Bencheck, Denison, TX (US);
Matthew W. Turlington, Richardson, TX (US);
Ross S. Hardin, Plano, TX (US);
Richard C. Schell, Allen, TX (US);
Howard Chiu, Plano, TX (US);
Lee D. Bengston, Murphy, TX (US);
William Drake, Garland, TX (US);
Nick DelRegno, Rowlett, TX (US);
Scott R. Kotrla, Wylie, TX (US);
David E. McDysan, Great Falls, VA (US);
Michael U. Bencheck, Denison, TX (US);
Matthew W. Turlington, Richardson, TX (US);
Ross S. Hardin, Plano, TX (US);
Richard C. Schell, Allen, TX (US);
Howard Chiu, Plano, TX (US);
Lee D. Bengston, Murphy, TX (US);
William Drake, Garland, TX (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system and method is provided for managing access communications between the service edge of a communications service provider and a customer. Access communications are carried in the form of carrier-tagged flows, the communications traffic being appended with carrier tags having significance to handling of the traffic through access network elements. A building aggregation system is provided which couples to customer premise equipment and interfaces customer flows to carrier-tagged flows used in the access network.