Patent ID: 8681632

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a carrier Ethernet service system, an Ethernet layer operation, administration, and management (“OAM”) protocol based message provided by a customer premises device to a network interface device over a user network interface (“UNI”), the Ethernet layer OAM protocol based message including a request to adjust an amount of bandwidth allocated to a carrier Ethernet service provided by the Ethernet service system to the customer premises device; and adjusting, by the carrier Ethernet service system in response to the request, the amount of bandwidth allocated to the carrier Ethernet service, wherein the receiving comprises: receiving the Ethernet layer OAM protocol based message transmitted by the customer premises device over the UNI; translating the Ethernet layer OAM protocol based message to a carrier Ethernet service network control plane protocol message; and sending the carrier Ethernet service network control plane protocol message to a network core subsystem, the carrier Ethernet service network control plane protocol message configured to instruct the network core subsystem to adjust the bandwidth allocated to the carrier Ethernet service across a carrier Ethernet service network in accordance with the request, and wherein the UNI is an access link from the customer premises device to the network interface device, and the network core subsystem is upstream of the network interface device such that the bandwidth allocated to the carrier Ethernet service is adjusted upstream of the network interface device.