Patent ID: 8768403

Claim:
A method for processing data packets in a mobile data network that includes a radio access network coupled to a core network, the method comprising the steps of: a plurality of antennas sending and receiving network messages between user equipment and a plurality of basestations in the radio access network, each basestation communicating with a corresponding one of the plurality of antennas; a breakout component in the one of the plurality of basestations that performs the steps of: defining an existing first data path in the radio access network for non-broken out data; defining a second data path for broken out data; identifying first data received from a corresponding basestation as data to be broken out; sending the first data on the second data path; forwarding other data that is not broken out on the first data path; a first subsystem providing primary control of monitoring and control functions for the breakout component; and a second subsystem providing backup control of at least some of the monitoring and control functions for the breakout component.