ACCESS SYSTEM AND NETWORK ARCHITECTURE WITH ACCESS SYSTEM

• US 20090043894A1
• Filed: 08/06/2008
• Published: 02/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: GODERIS, Danny, Vanhastel, Stefaan
• Granted Patent: US 9,363,100 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/1009 using page tables, e.g. page table structures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2889 Multiservice, e.g. MSAN
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2896 Distributed processing, e.g. on line cards
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0213 Standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA

Abstract

The invention relates to an access system for establishing a connection between a plurality of subscribers and a plurality of service providers, wherein the access system comprises a plurality of partitions each having a number of resources, each partition being suitable for allocation to one of said plurality of service providers and each partition comprising at least one subscriber port, at least one uplink and a forwarding means between said at least one subscriber port and said at least one uplink, wherein the access system is arranged to communicate with a managing operator for managing said plurality of partitions.

Claims

1. Access system for establishing a connection between a plurality of subscribers and a plurality of service providers characterized in that the access system comprises a plurality of partitions each having a number of resources, each partition being suitable for allocation to one of said plurality of service providers and each partition comprising at least one subscriber port, at least one uplink and a forwarding means between said at least one subscriber port and said at least one uplink, wherein the access system is arranged to communicate with a managing operator for managing said plurality of partitions.

2. Access system according to claim 1, characterized in that the access system comprises a partition management means arranged to communicate with the managing operator for creating and deleting partitions and for allocating resources to partitions.

3. Access system according to claim 1, characterized in that the access system comprises a management access controller providing a management interface to the plurality of service providers and controlling the management requests of each provider.

4. Access system according to claim 1, having a plurality of common resources, characterized in that the partition management means is arranged for assigning usage of the common resources to the partitions, and that the access system comprises a common resource controller for controlling access to the common resources in function of the assigned usage.

5. Access system according to claim 1, characterized in that the access system is arranged to communicate with the managing operator using one of the following ways:

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol), TL1 (Transaction Language 1), CLI (Command Line Interface).

6. Access system according to claim 2, characterized in that the partition management means comprises a table with an overview of all the partitions and the resources assigned to these partitions, said table being configurable by the managing operator.

7. Access system according to claim 2, characterized in that there is provided a graphical user interface (GUI) for configuring the partitions, which GUI is arranged to communicate with the partition management means.

8. Network architecture comprising an access system according to claim 1, characterized in that the network architecture comprises a management system of the managing operator, said management system comprising a partition management means for creating and deleting partitions and for allocating resources to partitions, said partition managing means being arranged to communicate with the access system.

9. Network architecture comprising an access system according to claim 1, characterized in that the network architecture comprises a management system of the managing operator, said management system comprising a management access controller providing an interface to the plurality of service providers and controlling the management requests of each provider.

10. Network architecture according to claim 9, the management system of the managing operator having a North-bound interface, characterized in that the North-bound interface is used for communication between the plurality of services providers and the management access controller.