Patent ID: 8089969

Claim:
A traffic management system for a provider edge node in a Metro Ethernet Network comprising: a classifier operable to: determine, based on information recorded in a header of a received Ethernet service frame, a service class for said received Ethernet service frame, where said service class is associated with a forwarding treatment for said received Ethernet service frame; and determine an identity of an Ethernet virtual connection to associate with said received Ethernet service frame based on the identity of a receiving port in combination with a VLAN-ID associated with the Ethernet service frame; select a service class map based on said identity of said Ethernet virtual connection, where said service class map associates scheduling treatments with Bandwidth Profile identities; determine a scheduling treatment for said received Ethernet service frame based on said service class; determine an identity of a Bandwidth Profile to associate with said received Ethernet service frame, said determining said identity based on an association, in said service class map, between said Bandwidth Profile and said scheduling treatment for said received Ethernet service frame; determine compliance of said received Ethernet service frame to said Bandwidth Profile; a marker operable to modify said header of said received Ethernet service frame to indicate: said forwarding treatment for said received Ethernet service frame based on said service class; and said compliance of said received Ethernet service frame to said Bandwidth Profile; and a forwarder operable to transmit said received Ethernet service frame to a node in said metro Ethernet network.