Patent ID: 9716671
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for provider bridged network communication, the method comprising: receiving traffic including a source and a destination address at a first virtual local area network (VLAN) for redirection to a second VLAN; encapsulating the traffic with a tag representing the first VLAN; forwarding the encapsulated traffic based on the encapsulation, and the source and the destination address to a provider edge bridge (PEB) of the first VLAN; forwarding, by a processor, the encapsulated traffic from the PEB of the first VLAN to a PEB of the second VLAN; decapsulating the traffic to remove the tag representing the first VLAN; and forwarding the decapsulated traffic based on the source and the destination address to an access point (AP) of the second VLAN.