Patent ID: 8761827

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 component 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, the breakout component comprising: a first subsystem providing primary control of monitoring and control functions for the breakout component; and a second subsystem providing backup control of at least some of the monitoring and control functions for the breakout component.