Network device in a communication network and method for providing communications traffic breakout

摘要

According to an exemplary embodiment of the invention a network device may be provided which may comprise a receiving unit, a sending unit and an evaluating unit. It may be foreseen that the receiving unit may be adapted to receive a trigger signal for preparing a breakout of a plurality of packets, wherein the plurality of packets may comprise at least one packet from a first source and at least one packet from a second source and wherein the evaluating unit may be adapted to evaluate the trigger signal. Moreover, the evaluation unit may be adapted to evaluate packets from a first source and packets from a second source and the evaluation unit may be adapted to distinguish packets from the first source from packets from the second source.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
intercepting a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Request from a user equipment; allocating, by a serving gateway or a local breakout gateway, a local internet protocol address for the user equipment; receiving, by the serving gateway or the local breakout gateway, packets from the user equipment via a single bearer service, wherein at least some of the packets are received from a default bearer internet protocol address and at least some of the packets are received from the local internet protocol address corresponding to the user equipment; distinguishing the packets received from the local internet protocol address from the packets received from the default bearer internet protocol address; and breaking out the packets received from the local internet protocol address from the bearer service to a separate network.