in a first step, establishing and/or configuring a data path through a forwarding entity of the telecommunications network, wherein the forwarding entity is part of the access network or is an IP edge network node, wherein the data path exists within the forwarding entity as an at least partly programmed and/or pre-provisioned data path comprising data path configuration information, and wherein the data path configuration information, at least partly, is usable while the data path is in operative use to identify a respective user equipment and/or a respective data plane session using the data path; and

in a second step, subsequent to the first step, the data plane session is established, after being requested by the user equipment, wherein establishing the data plane session involves the data plane session and/or the user equipment being assigned to the data path;

wherein, within or as part of the forwarding entity, the data path is identified via at least one internal unique identifier, wherein, in order to establish the data plane session or to put the data plane session into operation and to assign the data path to the data plane session and/or the user equipment, the at least one internal unique identifier is associated or assigned to a piece of information of the data path configuration information; and

wherein the data path comprises an uplink data path component and a downlink data path component, wherein each of the data path components are, within or as part of the forwarding entity, pre-provisioned data path components and are, respectively, identified via an internal unique identifier, wherein the internal unique identifier is or corresponds to: