Patent ID: 8718057

Claim:
A traffic management system for a first provider edge node, said first provider edge node having a first User-Network Interface, in a provider network operating according to a Local Area Network Service comprising: a classifier adapted to: determine an identity of a multipoint-to-multipoint Ethernet Virtual Connection to associate with a received Ethernet service frame, said multipoint-to-multipoint Ethernet Virtual Connection associating said first User-Network Interface with at least a second User-Network Interface; determine, based on the identity of the Ethernet Virtual Connection, a service class for the received Ethernet service frame; a marker adapted to: select, based on said service class, a forwarding treatment; and associate said forwarding treatment with said received Ethernet service frame; and a forwarder adapted to: determine, based on said forwarding treatment, how to schedule transmission of said received Ethernet service frame; and transmit said received Ethernet service frame, over the multipoint-to-multipoint Ethernet Virtual Connection, to a node in said provider network.