Patent ID: 7016369

Claim:
For use in a telecommunications network having a physical layer which includes Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) entities, a call layer, and a connection layer, with a separation between the call layer and the connection layer whereby the call layer and the connection layer utilize differing signaling entities in the physical layer, a method comprising: at a first end node of the network, making an association of binding information with connection endpoint information for a first connection end point at the first end node of the network; in the call layer, transmitting the binding information and an ATM end system address (AESA) of the first end node to a second end node of the network; reserving a second connection end point at the second end node; sending a connection request from the call layer to the connection layer, the connection request including the binding information and the AESA of the first end node; routing connection layer signaling through the connection layer to the first end node; at the first end node, using the binding information included in the connection layer signaling to obtain the connection endpoint information for the first connection end point.