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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2008
Applicants:
Michael Emmendorfer, Aurora, CO (US);
Tom Cloonan, Lisle, IL (US);
Erich Arnold, Naperville, IL (US);
Inventors:
Michael Emmendorfer, Aurora, CO (US);
Tom Cloonan, Lisle, IL (US);
Erich Arnold, Naperville, IL (US);
Assignee:
ARRIS Enterprises, Inc., Suwanee, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 12/2861 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device, deployed at the edge of a provider network, includes logic to receive traffic from one or more customer edge devices, and to encapsulate the customer traffic into a Layer 2 tunnel of an IP frame. The IP frame in further included within an Ethernet frame, and quality of service priority bits are promoted from the customer traffic into both the IP frame and the Ethernet frame.