Method of operating a telecommunications network

Abstract

A method (200) of operating a telecommunications network (100), the telecommunications network comprising a client device (110), a server (150) configured to provide a service for the client device, and a plurality of network nodes (140) communicatively connecting the client device and the server, in which said method comprises the steps of: identifying: characteristic information associated with the client device (220); the service for the client device (220); in dependence upon the identified service and characteristic information, a service capability requirement for the provision of the identified service to the client device (220); and capability information for each of the plurality of network nodes (220); determining a given network node of the plurality of network nodes to be suitable in response to the capability information of said network node satisfying the identified service capability requirement (230); and subsequently routing network communications associated with the identified service between the client device and the server via at least one of the plurality of network nodes that is determined to be suitable (240). An apparatus (120) for performing the aforementioned method is also disclosed.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.