System and method for enabling terminal equipments to use ADSL and LTE infrastructures for internet access
AssigneeTejas Networks Limited
InventorsVijaya Kumar, Firoz Khan Patan, Rajesh Purohit, Sivan Ramachandran, Rakesh Apparaju, Venkateswara Reddy
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Abstract
Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable LTE unaware devices to access Internet by reusing ADSL billing and OSS infrastructure in a LTE deployment by enabling the LTE to provide a transparent Internet pipe through which multiple terminal equipments (TEs) can be connected to a single CPE, and at the same time enabling each user to be billed separately using the existing broadband remote access servers (BRAS).
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A Long-Term Evolution (LTE) system for enabling Internet access comprising:
- one or more terminal equipments (TEs) operatively coupled with a customer premises Equipment (CPE), wherein a first of said one or more terminal equipments is configured to send a message to said CPE;
- a packet data network gateway (PGW) operatively coupled with said CPE wherein said PGW is configured to receive said message from said CPE, and broadcast said message to an existing broadband remote access server (BRAS) side, wherein said PGW receives a response to the message from a server of said BRAS side and sends said received response to said CPE for transmission of said received response to said first of said one or more terminal equipments, wherein said PGW maintains a mapping between said CPE and said first of said one or more terminal equipments.
A method for enabling Internet access in a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) system comprising the steps of:
- receiving, at a customer premises equipment (CPE), from a first of one or more terminal equipments, a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Discover/Request;
- receiving, at a packet data network gateway (PGW) that is operatively coupled with said CPE, said DHCP Discover/Request from said CPE, and broadcast said DHCP request to an existing broadband remote access server (BRAS) side, wherein said PGW receives DHCP offer/ACK from a server of said BRAS side to send said received DHCP offer/ACK to said CPE for transmission of said received DHCP offer/ACK to said first of said one or more terminal equipments, wherein said PGW maintains a mapping between said CPE and said first of said one or more terminal equipments.
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