customer premises equipment cpe in certain instances it is advantageous to provide a unified multi service network for voice video and data traffic to provide a rich set of services in an economical manner for example a multi service network can be used by a service provider to provide customers with augmented data and or video content to provide e g sports coverage weather forecasts traffic reports commentary community service information etc and augmented content e g advertisements broadcasts video on demand vod interactive television programming guides links marketplace information etc in this manner a customer of the service may seamlessly obtain traditional ip based data combined with supplemental media rich information such a multi service network could also be used to provide the customer with the ability to use the network as a telephone using voice over internet protocol voip transmissions a unified network for voice data and video traffic and a rich set of services based on such traffic offers enormous cost savings in building and running such a multi service network a multi service network can be a gateway for numerous types of traffic for example voice traffic that can include voip carried over ip ethernet asynchronous transfer mode atm passive optical network pon etc networks as well as traffic that is carried as time division multiplexing tdm over atm pon etc networks video traffic that can include traffic that is carried in a packetized format like mpeg 2 motion pictures expert group.