Patent ID: 8184640
Filing Date: 2012-05-22
Classification: H04J,H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) mapper associated with a plurality of interfaces and a plurality of ports corresponding to the interfaces, wherein the VLAN mapper comprises: a physical path termination point (PPTP) Ethernet user network interface (UNI) managed entity (ME); a Gigabit Passive Optical Network Encapsulation Method (GEM) interworking termination point (TP) ME; and a VLAN mapper service profile ME comprising a mapping table and positioned between the PPTP Ethernet UNI ME and the GEM interworking TP ME, and wherein the VLAN mapper is configured to direct a plurality of packets between the interfaces and the corresponding ports based on a VLAN mapping table, wherein the VLAN mapper is configured to direct a plurality of untagged packet, packets with unrecognized VLAN identifiers (VIDs), or both between the interfaces and the corresponding ports based on a default marking attribute, and wherein the mapping table comprises at least one table index field, a VID field associated with table index field, and an interwork TP pointer field associated with the VID field.