Patent ID: 7903676

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: one or more interfaces configured to receive a first plurality of IEEE 802.1ah frames and to send a second plurality of IEEE 802.1ah frames, wherein each of the first plurality of IEEE 802.1ah frames include a corresponding B-VLAN tag; one or more interfaces configured to receive a first plurality of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) packets over one or more MPLS pseudowires and to send a second plurality of MPLS packets over said one or more MPLS pseudowires; and one or more translation processing elements configured to translate the first plurality of IEEE 802.1ah frames for transport over said one or more MPLS pseudowires in the second plurality of MPLS packets which do not include said corresponding B-VLAN tags, and for translating the first plurality of MPLS packets into the second plurality of IEEE 802.1ah frames; wherein said translation processing elements are configured to update the Service Instance VLAN ID (I-SID) value in said translation from the first plurality of MPLS packet into the second plurality of IEEE 802.1ah frames.