METHOD FOR AN IMPROVED AND SIMPLIFIED OPERATION AND ARCHITECTURE OF A CENTRAL OFFICE POINT OF DELIVERY WITHIN A BROADBAND ACCESS NETWORK OF A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, AND SYSTEM, PROGRAM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT

摘要

The invention relates to a method and architecture for an improved and simplified operation and architecture of a central office point of delivery within a broadband access network of a telecommunications network and/or for flexibly providing, within the central office point of delivery, user-related traffic to at least one central functional entity providing at least one specific functionality, wherein the central office point of delivery and/or the broadband access network comprises a control node or a control plane, at least one repository node and a plurality of line termination nodes, wherein a specific line termination node of the plurality of line termination nodes is connected - using an access node port of the specific line termination node - to at least one specific network termination node of a plurality of network termination nodes, wherein the broadband access network or the central office point of delivery comprises both a plurality of service edge nodes and the at least one central functional entity providing the at least one specific functionality within the central office point of delivery or for the central office point of delivery, wherein user-related traffic - related to the specific line termination node and, hence, to a related specific service edge node of the plurality of service edge nodes - is routed, within or traversing the central office point of delivery, to the at least one central functional entity, wherein the method for flexibly providing user-related traffic comprises the following steps: - in a first step, the user-related traffic is routed to the specific service edge node selected or determined, by the repository node, based on or dependent on the specific network termination node and/or the specific line termination node, - in a second step, subsequent to the first step, the user-related traffic is provided to the at least one central functional entity providing the at least one specific functionality within the central office point of delivery or for the central office point of delivery.