A method for provisioning a home access gateway having one or more items of peripheral customer premises equipment, CPE, connected thereto via one or more local service ports, the one or more CPE items supporting each a different service and wherein the home access gateway connects to an Ethernet access network via a respective Ethernet port of a user-facing provider edge, UPE, switch, the method comprising: receiving at the UPE switch an indication via an identification frame message in an upstream Ethernet frame transmitted via an Ethernet port of an Ethernet access network from the home access gateway indicating that the home access gateway has been connected to the Ethernet port, the Ethernet access network providing multiple different services, selected from a group of services consisting of video, telephony, and data services, each service provided via a different Virtual Local Area Network, VLAN, via Ethernet protocol; responsively to the indication, transmitting from the UPE switch to the home access gateway via the Ethernet port at least one provisioning frame message in a downstream Ethernet frame containing associations between the services and respective VLAN identifiers, wherein the at least one provisioning frame message indicates a different VLAN identifier to be respectively associated with each of the services wherein the at least one provisioning frame message enables the home access gateway to be configured to deliver each of the services associated to the respective VLAN identifiers to the peripheral CPE item, based on the at least one provisioning frame message; and after transmitting the at least one provisioning frame message, conveying from the network to the Ethernet port Ethernet frames containing data provided by one or more of the services, each frame comprising a VLAN identifier in accordance with the indicated associations, so that the home access gateway can forward the frames to the appropriate local service port connected to a peripheral CPE item for the service based on the VLAN identifier. receiving at the UPE switch an indication via an identification frame message in an upstream Ethernet frame transmitted via an Ethernet port of an Ethernet access network from the home access gateway indicating that the home access gateway has been connected to the Ethernet port, the Ethernet access network providing multiple different services, selected from a group of services consisting of video, telephony, and data services, each service provided via a different Virtual Local Area Network, VLAN, via Ethernet protocol; responsively to the indication, transmitting from the UPE switch to the home access gateway via the Ethernet port at least one provisioning frame message in a downstream Ethernet frame containing associations between the services and respective VLAN identifiers, wherein the at least one provisioning frame message indicates a different VLAN identifier to be respectively associated with each of the services wherein the at least one provisioning frame message enables the home access gateway to be configured to deliver each of the services associated to the respective VLAN identifiers to the peripheral CPE item, based on the at least one provisioning frame message; and after transmitting the at least one provisioning frame message, conveying from the network to the Ethernet port Ethernet frames containing data provided by one or more of the services, each frame comprising a VLAN identifier in accordance with the indicated associations, so that the home access gateway can forward the frames to the appropriate local service port connected to a peripheral CPE item for the service based on the VLAN identifier.