METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTER WORKING A POINT-TO-POINT LINK AND A LAN SERVICE

摘要

An interworking device is provided that affords an interface between a point- to-point (P2P) environment and a local access network (LAN) environment. The interworking device comprises a P2P frame transceiver adapted to communicate with a P2P host utilizing P2P frames formatted in accordance with a P2P protocol. A LAN frame transceiver is adapted to communicate, over a LAN environment, with a LAN host utilizing LAN frames formatted in accordance with a LAN protocol. The P2P and LAN frames include client traffic having client level network layer (NL) information associated with a common predefined client level network layer protocol. A data forwarding module utilizes the NL information to map the client traffic from at least one of i) the P2P frames into the LAN environment and ii) the LAN frames into the P2P environment.