Patent ID: 6901079

Claim:
A method of providing different quality of services (QOS) in a communication network to data related to different point-to-point sessions, said method comprising: provisioning in a first aggregation device a plurality of virtual circuits, said plurality of virtual circuits being provisioned between said first aggregation device and a second aggregation device located in said communication network, each of said plurality of virtual circuits being provisioned to provide a different QOS; receiving in said first aggregation device a plurality of datagrams, each of said plurality of datagrams being related to a corresponding one of a plurality of point-to-point sessions; determining a point-to-point session to which each of said plurality of datagrams relates to; assigning each of said plurality of datagrams to one of said plurality of virtual circuits depending on the QOS desired for the corresponding point-to-point session; and sending the data in each of said datagrams to said second aggregation device in the form of a packet on a corresponding assigned virtual circuit, whereby different point-to-point sessions receive different QOS.