Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Enhanced fixed broadband access network—mobile network integration for efficient local traffic offloading
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Application No.: US16906266Application Date: 2020-06-19
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Publication No.: US11252606B2Publication Date: 2022-02-15
- Inventor: Raghunadha Reddy Pocha , Sateesh Reddy Mommidi , Ravi Sankar Mantha
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC
- Main IPC: H04W88/16
- IPC: H04W88/16 ; H04W28/08 ; H04W76/15 ; H04W12/06 ; H04W28/02 ; H04W76/11

Abstract:
An enhanced, fixed broadband access network—mobile network integration for integrating fixed broadband access networks and mobile networks may include a network node having a Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) User Plane (UP) (BNG-UP) function operative to serve as a Branching Point (BP) User Plane Function (UPF). The network node may include a network interface to interface with a Control Plane (CP) for session management and a network interface to interface with a BNG Control Plane (BNG-CP) function. The network node may be configured to process UP traffic based on one or more sets of rules, to forward first UP traffic towards a first UPF to a Data Network (DN) and to forward second UP traffic towards a second UPF to a Local Area Data Network (LADN). Sessions with the CP for session management and the BNG-CP may be identified as related sessions for appropriate processing of the UP traffic.
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