Patent ID: 8599865

Claim:
A method for managing a first communication flow and a second communication flow in a network environment, the second communication flow associated with voice data and/or video data, comprising: receiving, at a mobile access gateway, a request from a mobile node for an Internet protocol (IP) address; establishing a point-to-point (PPP) link between the mobile node and the mobile access gateway; provisioning a first tunnel associated with the first communication flow for the mobile node between the local mobility anchor of the mobile node and the mobile access gateway, wherein said first tunnel is a guaranteed bandwidth traffic-engineered tunnel; and applying Quality of Service (QoS) parameters associated with the second communication flow against the guaranteed bandwidth of the first tunnel to ensure the first tunnel has the capacity to carry the second communication flow; provisioning a sub-tunnel within the first tunnel for transporting the second communication flow, wherein the sub-tunnel consumes a portion of the available bandwidth of the first tunnel.