Patent ID: 8619784

Claim:
A method of transferring data in a network, comprising: receiving a Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) frame, wherein the PBT frame is received at a provider edge device configured to transfer data between a Provider Backbone Bridge Network (PBBN) and a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network; identifying, at the provider edge device, a plurality of location specific identifiers in the PBT frame, the plurality of location specific identifiers including: a service instance identifier (I-SID), a customer virtual local area network identifier (C-VID), a service virtual local area network ID (S-VID), and a pseudowire identifier (PW ID); obtaining, at the provider edge device, a PBT service lookup table to map the PBT frame to a service based at least in part on the plurality of location specific identifiers, wherein the PBT service lookup table has been provisioned in response to an indication of a service change for a customer associated with the PBT frame; formatting, at the provider edge device, the PBT frame according to the service to obtain a service frame; and transferring, by the provider edge device, the service frame to a network associated with the service.