PROVISION ADVANCED NETWORK SERVICES

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
LINK OREGON	Oregon Fiber Partnership	P.O. Box 13309 Portland OR 97213	provision of advanced network services over fiber optic networks and related facilities to share information and resources and promote collaboration among government, higher and public education, research, healthcare, and nonprofit institutions;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

An access node run as a packet switching apparatus enables IP connection services for a plurality of access methods; e.g., relatively low-speed IP connection, high-speed IP connection, and mobile network IP connection. By using this apparatus of the present invention, cost can be reduced and upgrading to advanced access networks and access services is easily carried out. Provision of the above access nodes implements upgrade-type network services common for diverse protocols. Each access node retains a pathfinding table to which input port, input tunnel identifier and input session identifier entries in a set are registered per session. When routing a packet, by looking up the set of these entries matching with the packet, the associated output port, output tunnel identifier, and output session identifier are obtained. After processing for the packet, appropriate for one of the plurality of access methods and network services, the node forwards the packet over the routed path.