Patent ID: 8139485

Claim:
A method of managing data packets passing through an Ethernet node, said method comprising operating said node, said node comprising multiple ingress ports and multiple egress ports, said ingress ports receiving said data packets from at least one services, said egress ports configured with at least one Logical Transport Resource (LTR), each of said at least one LTR configured as a predefined path between one of said egress ports and a destination in the Ethernet network, and wherein said at least one LTR between network-network interface ports, mapping one or more of said services to each of said at least one LTR, wherein said one or more services are incoming on one or more user-network interface ports, dynamically modifying each of said at least one LTR to a configured rate, wherein said dynamically modifying comprises shaping performed at the node on access traffic and scheduling at the node on said access traffic and transit traffic with each of said access traffic and said transit traffic configured to egress at the configured rate for the at least one LTR through the Ethernet network, and wherein said scheduling is performed through a hierarchical structure on said access traffic of said node and said transit traffic of said node, and transmitting data packets to the Ethernet network via said egress ports.