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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2014
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Panagiotis Saltsidis, Stockholm, SE;
Zhemin Ding, Stockholm, SE;
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A method and Provider Edge Bridge for providing a C-tagged service interface or a port-based interface. In one embodiment, the Provider Edge Bridge includes a Customer Virtual Local Area Network (C-VLAN) component having a Customer Edge Port (CEP) and a plurality of Provider Edge Ports (PEPs). A first Service VLAN (S-VLAN) component is connected to the C-VLAN component and to a Metro Ethernet Network (MEN). A second S-VLAN component is connected to the C-VLAN component, to the first S-VLAN component, and to an External Network Network Interface (E-NNI). A plurality of ports on the first S-VLAN component facing the MEN are designated as S-VLAN Remote Customer Ports (RCPs) when the ports are connecting internal services in the MEN to provide the C-tagged service interface or the port-based interface to customers from a far side of the E-NNI.