Patent ID: 8639951

Claim:
A mobile data network comprising: a plurality of basestations, each basestation communicating with a corresponding antenna that transmits and receives radio signals to and from user equipment, wherein the plurality of basestations are part of a radio access network that communicates with a core network in the mobile data network, each basestation comprising: a breakout appliance that defines an existing first data path in the radio access network for non-broken out data, defines a second data path for broken out data, identifies first data corresponding to first user equipment received from a corresponding basestation as data to be broken out, sends the first data on the second data path, and forwards other data that is not broken out on the first data path, wherein the breakout appliance provides a first service with respect to internet protocol (IP) data sent to the first user equipment in response to an IP data request in the first data from the first user equipment, the breakout appliance defining a plurality of states, each state defining a different set of steps performed by the breakout appliance, wherein the plurality of states comprises an end of life state that erases at least one block of executable code in the breakout appliance that is necessary for normal function of the breakout appliance to render the breakout appliance a lifeless piece of hardware that cannot boot.