Patent ID: 8213311

Claim:
A method of binding a control plane to a data plane, including: receiving, via a server, a request from a client device to initiate a session, wherein the request is sent via a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based protocol, the session being capable of transporting application flows generated by a client device application, the client device application configured to generate identifiable layer 3 data; setting up the session, via the server, including selecting, based at least in part on network topology and in response to the request from the client device, a client device edge node from a plurality of client device edge nodes to participate in the session, wherein the client device edge node is configured to associate the client device with a core network and is configured to identify the session data and non-session data; transmitting, via the server, a set of one or more service parameters associated with the request to the edge node; wherein at least some of the service parameters are used for configuring the client device edge node to: map one or more application flows to one or more Pseudowires according to one or more of a plurality of mapping schemes, provide a Quality of Service (QoS) for the session data, and exclude the non-session data from the one or more mapped Pseudowires; configuring of the client device edge node prior to an initial flow of application flow data between the client device and the client device edge node; and at least one of the plurality of mapping schemes is selected based at least in part on at least one of a bandwidth requirement associated with a corresponding application flow and a traffic requirement associated with the corresponding application flow, wherein the plurality mapping schemes include a one-to-one mapping where a single application flow is mapped to a single Pseudowire, a distributed mapping where a single application flow is mapped to multiple Pseudowires, and an aggregated mapping where multiple application flows are mapped to a single Pseudowire.