Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing admission control in a regional/access network using defined link constraints for an application

摘要

Traffic is admitted to a Regional/Access Network (RAN) where the RAN facilitates differentiated end-to-end data transport between a Network Service Provider (NSP) and/or an Application Service Provider (ASP) and a customer Premises Network (CPN) that includes Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) by defining maximum numbers of flows/sessions that may be active on respective links connecting network elements in the access network. The numbers of flows/sessions that may be active on the links are restricted to the defined maximum numbers.