Patent ID: 7554906

Claim:
A method, comprising: managing transport bearers in a mobile telecommunication network, wherein an asynchronous transfer mode adaptation layer 2 transport bearer is allocated on demand of a radio link using said asynchronous transfer mode adaptation layer 2 transport bearer, the managing comprising, creating a number of modifiable asynchronous transfer mode adaptation layer 2 transport bearers during system initialization and setting a bandwidth of the modifiable asynchronous transfer mode adaptation layer 2 transport bearers to a nominal or zero bandwidth, modifying a bandwidth of an existing asynchronous transfer mode adaptation layer 2 transport bearer to one of a nominal and zero bandwidth in response to said radio link using said existing asynchronous transfer mode adaptation layer 2 transport bearer being inactivated, and modifying the bandwidth of said existing asynchronous transfer mode adaptation layer 2 transport bearer to a bandwidth required by said radio link using said existing asynchronous transfer mode adaptation layer 2 transport bearer in response to said radio link using said existing asynchronous transfer mode adaptation layer 2 transport bearer being activated.