Patent ID: 9363100
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. An access node for establishing a connection between a plurality of subscribers and a plurality of service providers, wherein the access node comprises: a plurality of partitions, each having a number of resources, each partition being suitable for allocation to one of said plurality of service providers, respectively, and each partition comprising at least one subscriber port, at least one uplink and at least one forwarder between said at least one subscriber port and said at least one uplink, wherein the access node is arranged to communicate with a managing operator for managing said plurality of partitions, a plurality of common resources comprising media access control (MAC) addresses, backplane capacity, and system logging, wherein a partition manager creates and deletes partitions and assigns usage of the common resources to the partitions, the partition manager comprising a table indicating dedicated and common resources assigned to each of the plurality of partitions, a common resource controller which controls access to the common resources as a function of the assigned usage, and a management access controller configured to: