Bandwidth on demand for media services at stationary equipment unit
AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
InventorsDavid J. Khoury, Andrew J. Sharp
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Abstract
A node (26) of a communications network (20) establishes multiple simultaneous access bearers (38) to a stationary equipment unit (22) which is connected to the node (26) by a essentially fixed location physical link (24). Advantageously, the multiple simultaneous access bearers can have different bandwidths and quality of service capabilities. For example, the node can establish access bearers for providing different types of services to the stationary equipment unit, the different types of services including one of a voice service, a video service, and a data traffic service. Moreover, the multiple simultaneous access bearers include both circuit switched access bearers and packet switched access bearers.
Claims29
A node of a communications network comprising:
- plural interfaces connected to respective plural external networks from which the node obtains differing types of media services and provides the differing types of media services to a stationary equipment unit, the plural interfaces including:
- an Iu-CS interface configured for connection toward a circuit switched core mobile network;
- an Iu-PS interface configured for connection toward a packet switched core mobile network;
- a connection control unit configured to use a modified UTRAN signaling protocol for dynamically establishing multiple concurrent access bearers for providing the stationary equipment unit with types of access bearers and services as are provided to a WCDMA user equipment unit, the modified UTRAN signaling protocol being configured to remove physical parameters related to radio resources and to add information elements which relate to a transport layer for the physical link;
- a bearer service processing unit configured to map the multiple concurrent access bearers into packets of a transport protocol of a single essentially fixed location physical link, differing ones of the multiple access bearers being configured for utilization by the differing types of the media services;
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- a port configured to connect the access network controller node to a first endpoint of the fixed location physical link, a second endpoint of the fixed location physical link being connected to the stationary equipment unit.
A method of operating a communications network comprising:
- establishing, for an access interface node, plural interfaces connected to respective plural external networks from which the node obtains differing types of media services and provides the differing types of media services to a stationary equipment unit, the plural interfaces including:
- an Iu-CS interface configured for connection toward a circuit switched core mobile network;
- an Iu-PS interface configured for connection toward a packet switched core mobile network;
- connecting the stationary equipment unit to the access interface node by an essentially fixed location physical link;
- at the node using a modified UTRAN signaling protocol for dynamically establishing multiple concurrent access bearers for concurrently providing differing types of services offered by one or more external networks through the node and on the multiple concurrent access bearers to the stationary equipment unit on the same essentially fixed location physical link, differing ones of the multiple access bearers being configured for utilization by the differing types of media services, in the modified UTRAN signaling protocol physical parameters related to radio resources have been removed and information elements which relate to a transport layer for the physical link have been added;
- mapping the access bearers into packets of a transport protocol of the essentially fixed location physical link.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.