Patent ID: 8001248

Claim:
A method for providing quality of service in a DSL network, the method comprising: receiving a request at the DSL network to establish a network connection between a DSL endpoint associated with the DSL network and an Internet endpoint; determining a network quality of service parameter associated with the request and the Internet endpoint, wherein the determining of the network quality of service includes determining if the request is from a network having a layer 3 IP quality of service or a layer 2 ATM quality of service; mapping the network quality of service parameter to a DSL quality of service parameter based on a connection type, wherein the mapping operation correlates the DSL quality of service parameter to layer 2 and layer 3 network quality of service parameters, and wherein the layer 2 and layer 3 network quality of service parameters comprise at least one of cell delay, cell delay variation, and cell loss; and establishing the network connection between the DSL endpoint and the Internet endpoint by applying the DSL quality of service parameter at the DSL network.