Metropolitan area network communications method and communication system

• US 9,240,943 B2
• Filed: 08/04/2011
• Issued: 01/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beijing Qiantang Network Technology Company, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Beijing Qiantang Network Technology Company, Ltd.
• Inventors: Lu, Dorian, Yang, Carl
• Primary Examiner(s): Beharry, Noel
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mak, Rodrick
• Application Number:
  US13/814,731
• Publication Number:
  US 20130188646A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,629 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5019 Ensuring fulfilment of SLA
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/42 Centralised routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2475 for supporting traffic characterised by the type of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5038 for local use, e.g. in LAN or USB networks, or in a controller area network [CAN]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS

Abstract

A metropolitan area network (MAN) communications method, a metropolitan area server, a node switch, a node server, and a MAN communication system for solving the incapability of an IP network in ensuring transmission quality. The communications method comprises: a piece of MAN equipment accessing a MAN, the metropolitan area server in the MAN allocating for the network accessing equipment a protocol tag and a MAN address; the MAN equipment comprising the node switch and the node server; the protocol tag being used as a description of the connection between the MAN equipment and the metropolitan area server; for each cross MAN service request, the metropolitan area server allocating a data tag of the corresponding service: the data tag being used as a description of the connection among the service node related to the service. This invention is applicable in multimedia transmission, and is capable of ensuring a stable transmission rate, thereby avoiding delays.

Claims

1. A communication method for a metropolitan area network, the metropolitan area network being a network with a centralized control function, which comprises a metropolitan area server, a node switch and a node server, wherein the node switch is connected between the metropolitan area server and the node server, the method comprising:

allocating, by the metropolitan area server with a centralized control function in the metropolitan area network, a protocol label and a metropolitan area network address to the device that accesses the network after a metropolitan area network device accesses the metropolitan area network, wherein, the metropolitan area network device is the node switch or the node server, the protocol label is adapted to describe a connection between the metropolitan area network device and the metropolitan area server, the allocation comprising;

sending, by the metropolitan area server, metropolitan area query label packets to all downlink ports thereof, wherein each metropolitan area query label packet contains a standby protocol label allocated by the metropolitan area server;

receiving, by a certain metropolitan area network device after being powered on, the metropolitan area query label packet sent by the metropolitan area server, and then returning a metropolitan area reply label packet to the metropolitan area server, wherein the metropolitan area reply label packet contains a serial number of the metropolitan area network device and a port number of a port that receives the metropolitan area query label packet;

verifying, by the metropolitan area server according to the serial number in the metropolitan area reply label packet after receiving the packet, whether the metropolitan area network device is registered, and if the metropolitan area network device is registered;

sending a network access command to the port of the metropolitan area network device that receives the metropolitan area query label packet, wherein the network access command contains the metropolitan area network address allocated by the metropolitan area server to the metropolitan area network device and the standby protocol label; and

returning, by the corresponding port of the metropolitan area network device, a network access command reply after receiving the network access command, and the metropolitan area network device accessing the metropolitan area network;

receiving a plurality of metropolitan area query label packets by a plurality of ports of said one and the same metropolitan area network device, when there exist multiple connections between one and the same metropolitan area network device and the metropolitan area server, wherein the standby protocol label in each metropolitan area query label packet is different;

sending, by the metropolitan area server, a plurality of network access commands to the plurality of ports of one and the same metropolitan area network device via a plurality of different protocol labels, wherein the metropolitan area network address allocated to the metropolitan area network device in each network access command is the same;

allocating, by the metropolitan area server, a data label of a corresponding service to each service request across the metropolitan area network, wherein the data label is adapted to describe a connection between node servers related to the service;

setting an address information table in the metropolitan area server, wherein metropolitan area network address occupation information, device description information and device resource information are recorded in respective items of the address information table, and the device resource information comprises the metropolitan area network address of the metropolitan area network device connected to each network port of the device and an uplink and downlink flow count of each network port of the device;

the method further comprising, after the metropolitan area network allocates the metropolitan area network address to itself after being powered on, and modifying the item in the address information table corresponding to the address;

modifying the address occupation information from not used to used;

modifying the device description information as the metropolitan area server; and

modifying the device resource information as resource description of the metropolitan area server;

the method further comprising, after the metropolitan area server modifies the item in the address information table corresponding to the metropolitan area network address when allocating the metropolitan area network address to the metropolitan area network device and sending a network access command containing the metropolitan area network address;

modifying the address occupation information from not used to standby, while the device description information and the device resource information are not modified;

the method further comprising, after receiving a network access command reply sent by the metropolitan area network device;

modifying, by the metropolitan area server, the item in the address information table corresponding to the address;

modifying the address occupation information as used;

modifying the device description information as the metropolitan area network device; and

modifying the device resource information as a certain downlink port of the metropolitan area server connected to a certain uplink port of the metropolitan area network device; and

at the same time;

modifying the item in the address information table corresponding to the metropolitan area server address; and

modifying the device resource information as a certain uplink port of the metropolitan area network device connected to a certain downlink port of the metropolitan area server, while the address occupation information and the device description information are not modified;

wherein, said certain uplink port of the metropolitan area network device is known according to the metropolitan area reply label packet returned by the metropolitan area network device, and said certain downlink port of the metropolitan area server is known according to the protocol packet label table.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the protocol label is divided into an IN protocol label and an OUT protocol label, wherein the IN protocol label refers to a protocol label by which a packet enters the metropolitan area server or the node switch, wherein the OUT protocol label refers to a label by which a packet leaves the metropolitan area server or the node switch, wherein the data label is divided into an IN data label and an OUT data label, wherein the IN data label refers to a data label by which a packet enters the metropolitan area server or the node switch, and wherein the OUT data label refers to a data label by which a packet leaves the metropolitan area server or the node switch.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the protocol label in the metropolitan area reply label packet is the same as the protocol label in the metropolitan area query label packet, and the protocol label in the network access command reply is the same as the protocol label in the network access command;

and

the method further comprising;

setting, by the metropolitan area network device, in its internal protocol packet label table that all metropolitan area protocol packets are oriented to a CPU module when the metropolitan area network device is powered on, wherein the protocol packet label table is set in the metropolitan area network device; and

modifying, by the node switch, its own protocol packet label table according to an instruction from the metropolitan area server, and orienting metropolitan area protocol packets corresponding to respective standby protocol labels newly allocated by the metropolitan area server to corresponding downlink ports of the node switch respectively when the metropolitan area network device is the node switch and after the node switch accesses the metropolitan area network;

wherein, the standby protocol labels newly allocated are adapted to describe connections from the metropolitan area server to a subordinate connection device of the node switch, and the metropolitan area protocol packets comprise the metropolitan area query label packets sent by the metropolitan area server, wherein the subordinate connection device is any network device which is not a centrally controlling node; and

the method further comprising;

setting, by the metropolitan area network device, in its internal reply packet label table that orientation of all metropolitan area reply label packets is shut down when the metropolitan area network device is powered on, wherein the reply packet label table is set in the metropolitan area network device;

modifying, by the metropolitan area network device, its own reply packet label table after receiving the metropolitan area query label packet sent by the metropolitan area server; and

orienting the metropolitan area reply label packet corresponding to the protocol label to an uplink port that receives the metropolitan area query label packet;

modifying, by the node switch, its own reply packet label table according to an instruction from the metropolitan area server, and orienting metropolitan area protocol packets corresponding to respective standby protocol labels newly allocated by the metropolitan area server to corresponding uplink ports of the node switch respectively when the metropolitan area network device is the node switch and after the node switch accesses the metropolitan area network;

wherein, the standby protocol labels newly allocated are adapted to describe connections from a subordinate connection device of the node switch to the metropolitan area server; and

the method further comprising;

setting, by the metropolitan area server, in its internal protocol packet label table that orientation of all metropolitan area protocol packets is shut down when the metropolitan area server is powered on, wherein the protocol packet label table is set in the metropolitan area server; and

allocating, by the metropolitan area server, standby protocol labels corresponding to the number of its own downlink ports;

modifying its own protocol packet label table; and

orienting metropolitan area protocol packets corresponding to respective allocated standby protocol labels to corresponding downlink ports of the metropolitan area server respectively;

wherein, the standby protocol labels are adapted to describe connections from the metropolitan area server to the metropolitan area network device, and the metropolitan area protocol packets comprise the metropolitan area query label packets sent by the metropolitan area server and the metropolitan area server sends the metropolitan area query label packets to its downlink ports according to its own protocol packet label table.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

setting, by the metropolitan area server, in its internal reply packet label table that all metropolitan area reply label packets are oriented to a CPU module when the metropolitan area server is powered on, wherein the reply packet label table is set in the metropolitan area server;

accessing, by a certain subordinate connection device of the node switch, the metropolitan area network when the metropolitan area network device that accesses the network is the node switch, wherein the subordinate connection device comprises the node switch and the node server, the subordinate connection device is any network device which is not a centrally controlling node, and the accessing comprises;

sending, by the metropolitan area server, metropolitan area query label packets to respective subordinate connection devices via newly allocated standby protocol labels;

orienting the metropolitan area query label packets to the corresponding downlink ports of the metropolitan area server respectively according to a protocol packet label table;

receiving, by the subordinate connection device, a metropolitan area query label packet after being powered on, and then returning the metropolitan area reply label packet to the metropolitan area server, wherein the metropolitan area reply label packet contains a serial number of the subordinate connection device and a port number of a port that receives the metropolitan area query label packet;

verifying, by the metropolitan area server according to the serial number in the metropolitan area query label packet after receiving the packet, whether the subordinate connection device is registered;

sending a network access command to the subordinate connection device if the subordinate connection device is registered, wherein the network access command contains a metropolitan area network address allocated by the metropolitan area server to the subordinate connection device and the protocol label to be allocated; and

returning, by the subordinate connection device, a network access command reply after receiving the network access command, and accessing the metropolitan area network;

the method further comprising;

orienting, by the metropolitan area network device between the metropolitan area server and the subordinate connection device, the metropolitan area query label packet and the network access command to a corresponding downlink port for forwarding, according to its own protocol packet label table after receiving the metropolitan area query label packet and the network access command; and

orienting, by the metropolitan area network device between the metropolitan area server and the subordinate connection device, the metropolitan area reply label packet and the network access command reply to a corresponding uplink port for forwarding, according to its own reply packet label table after receiving the metropolitan area reply label packet and the network access command reply.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

setting a label information table in the metropolitan area server, wherein label occupation information, label description information and label routing information are recorded in respective items of the label information table, and the label routing information comprises the metropolitan area network address and a port number of a port of a previous-hop switch of the label;

modifying an item corresponding to a standby label in the label information table when the metropolitan area server allocates the label to the metropolitan area network device by;

modifying the label occupation information from not used to standby, and setting the metropolitan area network address and the port of the previous-hop switch in the label routing information as an address and a corresponding port of the metropolitan area server, while the label description information is not modified;

modifying the item corresponding to the label in the label information table after the metropolitan area network device accesses the network; and

modifying the label occupation information as used, while the label description information and the label routing information are not modified;

modifying the item corresponding to the standby label in the label information table when the metropolitan area server allocates the label to a subordinate connection device of the metropolitan area network device by;

modifying the label occupation information from not used to standby, and setting the metropolitan area network address and the port of the previous-hop switch in the label routing information as an address and a corresponding port of the metropolitan area network device, while the label description information is not modified, wherein the subordinate connection device is any network device which is not a centrally controlling node;

modifying the item corresponding to the label in the label information table after the subordinate connection device accesses the network; and

modifying the label occupation information as used, while the label description information and the label routing information are not modified.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the service request across the metropolitan area network relates to a first terminal and a second terminal;

and

the allocating by the metropolitan area server the data label of the corresponding service to each service request across the metropolitan area network comprises;

initiating, by the first terminal connected to a certain node server, a service request packet, and

adding, by the node server when determining that the second terminal is not connected to the node server according to the service request packet, the protocol label to deliver a service request packet to the metropolitan area server;

determining, by the metropolitan area server, that the second terminal is connected to another node server according to the service request packet received; and

obtaining, by the metropolitan area server, information on a communication link of the current service in the metropolitan area network, and then allocating the data label of the current service, and sending a label allocation packet containing information on the data label to the metropolitan area network devices on the communication link respectively;

wherein, the label allocation packet contains the IN data label, the OUT data label and an orientation port, and the metropolitan area network device comprises the node switch and the node server;

the method further comprising;

setting, by the metropolitan area server, the IN data label, the OUT data label and the orientation port of the current service in its internal data packet label table according to the allocated data label;

setting, by the metropolitan area network device on the communication link, the IN data label, the OUT data label and the orientation port in its internal data packet label table according to the label allocation packet, after the metropolitan area device receives the label allocation packet;

wherein, the internal data packet label tables of the metropolitan area server and the node switch are configured for orienting a label data packet received via the set IN data label to a corresponding port, and sending the label data packets by using the set corresponding OUT data label;

wherein, the internal data packet label table of the node server is configured for orienting a data packet received by the node server from an access network to a corresponding port, and adding the set corresponding OUT data label and sending the data packet to the metropolitan area network.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the information on the communication link is information on a unidirectional communication link, or information on a bidirectional communication link;

wherein, after the first terminal connected to the certain node server initiates the service request packet, the method further comprises;

checking, by the node server according to content of the service request packet, whether a remaining flow resource of the communication link between the node server and the first terminal meets a flow resource required by the service;

if not, sending a service reject packet to the first terminal;

if yes, continuing to determine whether the second terminal is connected to the node server;

wherein, after obtaining by the metropolitan area server the information on the communication link of the current service on the metropolitan area network, the method further comprises;

checking, by the metropolitan area server according to content of the service request packet, whether a remaining flow resource of the communication link of the current service on the metropolitan area network meets a flow resource required by the service;

if not, sending a service reject packet to the node server connected with the first terminal.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the service request packet initiated by the first terminal contains service type information, service content information and an access network address of the first terminal, wherein, the service content information comprises service number;

wherein, the node server connected with the first terminal looks up the service number in its internal preset content-address mapping table, if no service number is found, it determines that the second terminal is not connected to the node server;

otherwise, it determines that the second terminal is connected to the node server;

wherein, the service request packet received by the metropolitan area server contains service type information, service content information and an access network address of the first terminal, wherein, the service content information comprises service number; and

wherein, the metropolitan area server looks up the metropolitan area network address corresponding to the service number in its internal preset content-address mapping table, and determines that the second terminal is connected to another node server.

9. A metropolitan area server for communications in a metropolitan area network, the metropolitan area network being a network with a centralized control function, which comprises the metropolitan area server, a node switch and a node server, wherein the node switch is connected between the metropolitan area server and the node server, the metropolitan area server comprising:

a memory containing instructions and

a processor, wherein the processor is configured for executing the instructions, the instructions comprising;

allocating a protocol label to a metropolitan area network device that accesses the metropolitan area network when the device accesses the network, wherein, the protocol label is adapted to describe a connection between the metropolitan area network device and the metropolitan area server, and the metropolitan area network device is the node switch or the node server;

allocating a data label of a corresponding service to each service request across the metropolitan area network, wherein the data label is adapted to describe a connection between the node servers related to the service;

allocating a metropolitan area network address to the metropolitan area network device that accesses the metropolitan area network when the device accesses the network;

sending metropolitan area query label packets to all downlink ports thereof, wherein each metropolitan area query label packet contains a standby protocol label allocated by the processor;

receiving a metropolitan area reply label packet sent by the metropolitan area network device, wherein the metropolitan area reply label packet contains a serial number of the metropolitan area network device and a port number of a port that receives the metropolitan area query label packet;

verifying whether the metropolitan area network device is registered according to the serial number in the metropolitan area reply label packet;

sending a network access command to the port of the metropolitan area network device that receives the metropolitan area query label packet when the metropolitan area network device is registered, wherein the network access command contains the metropolitan area network address allocated by the metropolitan area server to the metropolitan area network device and the standby protocol label; and

receiving a network access command reply returned by the metropolitan area network device so that the metropolitan area network device accesses the metropolitan area network; and

the instructions further comprising, when there exist multiple connections between one and the same metropolitan area network device and the metropolitan area server;

receiving, by a plurality of ports of the metropolitan area server, a plurality of metropolitan area reply label packets sent by one and the same metropolitan area network device, wherein the standby protocol label in each metropolitan area reply label packet is different; and

sending a plurality of network access commands to the plurality of ports of one and the same metropolitan area network device via a plurality of different protocol labels, and the metropolitan area network address allocated to the metropolitan area network device in each network access command is the same;

wherein the memory stores an address information table, wherein metropolitan area network address occupation information, device description information and device resource information are recorded in respective items in the address information table, and the device resource information comprises the metropolitan area network address of the metropolitan area network device connected to each network port of the device and an uplink and downlink flow count of each network port of the device; and

the instructions further comprising, after the metropolitan area server is powered on and the processor allocates the metropolitan area network address to itself;

modifying the item in the address information table corresponding to the address;

modifying the address occupation information from not used to used;

modifying the device description information as the metropolitan area server;

and modifying the device resource information as resource description of the metropolitan area server; and

the instructions further comprising, when the processor allocates the metropolitan area network address to the metropolitan area network device and sends a network access command containing the metropolitan area network address;

modifying the item in the address information table corresponding to the address; and

modifying the address occupation information from not used to standby, while the device description information and the device resource information are not modified; and

the instructions further comprising, after the metropolitan area server receives a network access command reply sent by the metropolitan area network device;

modifying the item in the address information table corresponding to the address;

modifying the address occupation information as used;

modifying the device description information as the metropolitan area network device; and

modifying the device resource information as a certain downlink port of a metropolitan area server connected to a certain uplink port of the metropolitan area network device; and

at the same time;

modifying the item in the address information table corresponding to the metropolitan area server address; and

modifying the device resource information as a certain uplink port of the metropolitan area network device connected to a certain downlink port of the metropolitan area server, while the address occupation information and the device description information are not modified;

wherein, said certain uplink port of the metropolitan area network device is known according to the metropolitan area reply label packet returned by the metropolitan area network device, and said certain downlink port of the metropolitan area server is known according to the protocol packet label table; and

the instructions further comprising, when the processor allocates the address to the subordinate connection device of the metropolitan area network device and sends a network access command containing the metropolitan area network address;

modifying the item in the address information table corresponding to the metropolitan area network address;

modifying the address occupation information from not used to standby, while the device description information and the device resource information are not modified;

modifying the item in the address information table corresponding to the address after the metropolitan area server receives a network access command reply sent by a subordinate connection device;

modifying the address occupation information as used;

modifying the device description information as the subordinate connection device; and

modifying the device resource information as a certain downlink port of the metropolitan area network device connected to a certain uplink port of the subordinate connection device, wherein the subordinate connection device is any network device which is not a centrally controlling node; and

at the same time;

modifying the item in the address information table corresponding to the metropolitan area network device address; and

modifying the device resource information as a certain uplink port of the subordinate connection device connected to a certain downlink port of the metropolitan area network device, while the address occupation information and the device description information are not modified;

wherein, said certain uplink port of the subordinate connection device is known according to a metropolitan area reply label packet returned by the subordinate connection device, and said certain downlink port of the metropolitan area network device is known according to the protocol packet label table.

10. The metropolitan area server of claim 9, wherein, the label protocol is divided into an IN protocol label and an OUT protocol label, wherein the IN protocol label refers to a protocol label by which a packet enters the metropolitan area server or the node switch, and the OUT protocol label refers to a protocol label by which a packet leaves the metropolitan area server or the node switch;

and

wherein, the data label is divided into an IN data label and an OUT data label, wherein the IN data label refers to a data label by which a packet enters the metropolitan area server or the node switch, and the OUT data label refers to a data label by which a packet leaves the metropolitan area server or the node switch.

11. The metropolitan area server of claim 9, the instructions further comprising:

orienting metropolitan area protocol packets to corresponding downlink ports respectively, wherein the metropolitan area protocol packets comprise the metropolitan area query label packets sent by the metropolitan area server;

setting in protocol packet label table of the metropolitan area server that orientation of all metropolitan area protocol packets is shut down when the metropolitan area server is powered on; and

modifying the protocol packet label table and orienting the metropolitan area protocol packets corresponding to respective allocated standby protocol labels to corresponding downlink ports of the metropolitan area server respectively when the metropolitan area network device accesses the network and after the processor allocates standby protocol labels corresponding to the number of downlink ports;

wherein, the standby protocol labels are adapted to describe connections from the metropolitan area server to the metropolitan area network device.

12. The metropolitan area server of claim 9, wherein the instructions further comprising setting that all metropolitan area reply label packets are oriented to a CPU module when the metropolitan area server is powered on.

13. The metropolitan area server of claim 9, wherein, the memory stores a label information table, wherein label occupation information, label description information and label routing information are recorded in respective items the label information table, and the label routing information comprises the metropolitan area network address and a port number of a port of a previous-hop switch of the label;

the instructions further comprising;

modifying an item corresponding to a standby label in the label information table when the processor allocates the label to the metropolitan area network device;

modifying the label occupation information from not used to standby, and setting the metropolitan area network address and the port of the previous-hop switch in the label routing information as an address and a corresponding port of the metropolitan area server, while the label description information is not modified;

modifying the item corresponding to the label in the label information table after the metropolitan area network device accesses the network; and

modifying the label occupation information as used, while the label description information and the label routing information are not modified.

14. A node server for communications in a metropolitan area network, the metropolitan area network being a network with a centralized control function, which comprises a metropolitan area server, a node switch and the node server, wherein the node switch is connected between the metropolitan area server and the node server, the node server comprising:

a memory containing instructions and

a processor, wherein the processor is configured for executing the instructions, the instructions comprising;

obtaining a protocol label and a metropolitan area network address allocated from the metropolitan area server after accessing the metropolitan area network, wherein the protocol label is adapted to describe a connection between the node server and the metropolitan area server;

obtaining a allocated data label corresponding to the current service from the metropolitan area server for each service request across the metropolitan area network, wherein the data label is adapted to describe a connection between node servers related to the service;

adding a corresponding protocol label or data label to a protocol packet or a data packet sent by the node server to the metropolitan area network, and then sending the protocol packet or the data packet; and

removing the corresponding protocol label or data label from the protocol packet or the data packet received from the metropolitan area network, and then sending the protocol packet or the data packet;

wherein the memory stores a content-address mapping table, configured for recording a mapping relation between service content and the access network addresses, the information on service content comprises a service number;

wherein, the access network addresses are addresses allocated by respective node servers to a network access device connected therewith; and

wherein the service request across the metropolitan area network relates to a first terminal and a second terminal;

when the node server receives a service request packet initiated by the first terminal connected to the node server, which contains service type information, service content information and an access network address of the first terminal, the node server looks up the service number in the content-address mapping table, if no service number is found, it is determined that the second terminal is not connected to the node server;

otherwise, it is determined that the second terminal is connected to the node server;

the instructions further comprising;

orienting a data packet to a corresponding downlink port, wherein the data packet comprises a data packet received from the metropolitan area network;

wherein the node server connected with the second terminal sets, in its internal data packet address table, a port to which a data packet with a destination address being the access network destination address is oriented, according to the access network destination address in the packet; and

the node server connected with the first terminal sets, in its internal data packet address table, a port to which a data packet with a destination address being the access network source address is oriented, according to the access network source address in the packet;

wherein the memory further stores an address information table, wherein access network address occupation information, device description information and device resource information are recorded in respective items of the address information table, and the device resource information comprises the access network address of an access network device connected to each network port of the device and an uplink and downlink flow count of each network port of the device; and

wherein the node server obtains the information on the communication link between the node server and the terminal according to the access network address of an access network device connected to each network port of the device in the address information table, and obtains a remaining flow resource of the communication link between the node server and the terminal according to the uplink and downlink flow count of each network port of the device.

15. The node server of claim 14, wherein the memory further stores an address-label mapping table, configured for recording a binding relation between the access network addresses and the OUT labels of two terminals across the metropolitan area network for each service across the metropolitan area network;

wherein the access network addresses are addresses allocated by each node server to a network access device connected to the node server; and

the instructions further comprising looking up an OUT label corresponding to the protocol packet or the data packet sent by the node server to the metropolitan area network according to the address-label mapping table, and adding the OUT label found and sending the packet.

16. The node server of claim 14, the instructions further comprising:

setting, when the node server is powered on, that all metropolitan area protocol packets are oriented to a CPU module, wherein the metropolitan area protocol packet comprises the metropolitan area query label packet sent by the metropolitan area server;

orienting metropolitan area reply label packets to corresponding uplink ports respectively;

setting that the orientation of all metropolitan area reply label packets is shut down when the node server is powered on;

modifying its own reply packet label table after receiving the metropolitan area query label packet sent by the metropolitan area server;

orienting the metropolitan area reply label packet corresponding to the protocol label to an uplink port that receives the metropolitan area query label packet;

orienting data packets sent by the node server to the metropolitan area network to corresponding uplink ports respectively; and

setting an IN label, an OUT label and an orientation port for the service according to a label allocation packet sent by the metropolitan area server for each service request across the metropolitan area network;

wherein the data packet label table is adapted to orient a data packet received by the node server from the access network to the corresponding port, and add the set corresponding OUT label and send the data packet to the metropolitan area network.