Patent ID: 8908712

Claim:
An access device comprising: a Very-high-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Loop 2 (VDSL2) physical line module; a service template management module; and a service configuration module; wherein the VDSL2 physical line module is configured to identify an operation mode of a Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) connected to a subscriber port of the access device by performing a handshake negotiation with the CPE and to report the operation mode to the service template management module the operation mode being one of the group consisting of an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and a Packet Transfer Mode (PTM); wherein the service template management module is configured to predefine an ATM service template and a PTM service template to select a service template corresponding to the operation mode of the CPE reported by the VDSL2 physical line module and to notify the service configuration module of the selected service template; and wherein the service configuration module is configured to configure the subscriber port of the access device according to the selected service template.