Patent ID: 8218569
Filing Date: 2012-07-10
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for processing service emulation communications on a customer side of an access network prior to transmission through a service edge, wherein service emulation communications to and from the access network are aggregated, comprising: a service emulation interface for receiving service emulation communications, each of the service emulation communications comprising a service emulation instance payload that may differ in format from service emulation instance payloads of other service emulation communications, and at least one service emulation mapping identifier including at least the identification of the service emulation instance, the service emulation mapping identifiers of the service emulation communication having a uniform format; a service emulation end point component communicatively coupled to the service emulation interface, the service emulation end point component being configured to convert the service emulation communications to communications conforming to a first transport protocol; and an interworking function separate from and communicatively coupled to the service emulation end point component configured to convert the communications conforming to a first transport protocol to communications conforming to a second transport protocol, the first transport protocol being different fro the second transport protocol; wherein the interworking function sends the communications conforming to the second transport protocol to the service edge.