Patent ID: 8111695

Claim:
A network node with direct or indirect connectivity to customer premises via at least one downlink and connectivity to an aggregation network via at least one uplink, the network node comprising: a first interface configured to receive customer triggered reservation requests related to multicast services from the customer premises via the at least one downlink; a second interface configured to receive network triggered reservation requests related to unicast services from the aggregation network; and a resource admission controller configured to issue an admission control report for the network triggered reservation requests towards a central resource admission control device based on at least knowledge of available resources on the at least one downlink, the admission control report including information on available resources in the network node, the resource admission controller further configured to coordinate granting or refusing of the customer triggered reservation requests with the granting or refusing of the network triggered reservation requests based on the admission control report, the central admission control device including a network admission controller configured to grant or refuse the network triggered reservation requests based on the admission control report and at least knowledge of available resources in the aggregation network, wherein the customer triggered reservation requests are related to broadcast television, an amount of the available resources on the at least one downlink dynamically varies based on a type of the channels selected from the customer premises, and the network triggered reservation requests are further related to at least one of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), video conferencing and a fixed IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS).