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Systems and methods for policy-enabled communications networks

  • US 7,082,102 B1
  • Filed: 09/20/2001
  • Issued: 07/25/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for policy-based control of a label switching network carrying one or more of voice and data traffic, the system comprising:

  • a central office, the central office including a trunk gateway;

    the label switching network being coupled to the trunk gateway of the central office;

    a network administration system, the network administration system including a plurality of policies stored in a policy repository each policy of at least a subset of the plurality of policies controlling, at least in part, the operation of the label switching network wherein a policy is one of an admission policy and a life cycle policy wherein further an admission policy maps packet traffic flows onto one or more label switched paths within the label switching network and a life cycle policy creates, deletes and monitors the one or more label switched paths within the label switching network; and

    a call control complex, the call control complex coupled to the network administration system and the label switching network.

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