Arrangements and methods in an access system

An access system (ACC) for relating service providers (SP-SPn) to users (U-Um) includes an edge access server (EAS) connecting the service providers and penults (P-Pk) connecting the users. User devices (UD-UD) are connected via VLAN:s to a user ports (UP) on the penult. The edge access server has s...

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Main Authors Tönnby, Ingmar, Larsson, Ulf, Rindborg, Tom, Halén, Joacim, Hjelmestam, Eric, Sol, Egbert-Jan
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 04.05.2010
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Summary:An access system (ACC) for relating service providers (SP-SPn) to users (U-Um) includes an edge access server (EAS) connecting the service providers and penults (P-Pk) connecting the users. User devices (UD-UD) are connected via VLAN:s to a user ports (UP) on the penult. The edge access server has service agents (SA-SAn), an administrator (AD) and a broadcast handler (BH), which forms a handling system together with handlers (H-Hk) in the penults. A user (U) decision including VLAN, service (SP) and user port (UP) is sent to the administrator (AD), which dynamically allocates to the relevant service agent (SA) a MAC address, defining a relation (R). A user device (UD) broadcasts a DHCP request unicasted together with user port (UP) to the braoadcast handler (BH). The user device (UD) gets its IP address and IP address to the service agent (SA). The device (UD) broadcasts an ARP request which is unicasted by the penult (P), to get the MAC address to the service agent (SA). The relations (R, R) are secure and can easily be controled.