Patent ID: 8867541

Claim:
A method of provisioning services to subscriber devices associated with a local area network (LAN) comprised in a wireless network, comprising: receiving, at a first wireless subscriber device within the LAN, via the LAN, an outgoing packet that has been generated by a source subscriber device associated with the LAN, the outgoing packet being tagged with a VLAN label; removing the VLAN label from the outgoing packet and providing a DSCP value in the outgoing packet, the DSCP value being established based on the VLAN label, and the priority of the packet; forwarding, over the wireless network, said outgoing packet towards a gateway in the VLAN, over a connection established based on the DSCP value; at the gateway, providing the VLAN label to the outgoing packet based on the DSCP value; and forwarding said outgoing packet with the VLAN label to a destination subscriber device in the VLAN.