APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR ORDERING AND PROVISIONING VARIABLE BANDWIDTH CAPACITY ON A NETWORK

摘要

Systems and methods for automatic purchasing, reserving and/or provisioning of a wavelength bandwidth block are disclosed. A user may access a web page, such as an interactive web-portal, to provide bandwidth data and corresponding ordering information for reserving a particular amount of bandwidth capacity on a telecommunications network. Subsequently, the customer's may access and the bandwidth blocks to increase/decrease and/or activate/deactivate portions of the reserved bandwidth capacity as needed.

主权项

1. A system for providing bandwidth comprising:
a first network node server comprising:
at least one line-side port to communicate data at a maximum bandwidth capacity on a network; anda plurality of tributary ports, each tributary port of the plurality of tributary ports for communicating the data at a percentage of the maximum bandwidth capacity; and a second network node server comprising:
at least one other line-side port to communicate the data at the maximum bandwidth capacity on the network; anda plurality of other tributary ports, each other tributary port of the plurality of other tributary ports for communicating the data at a percentage of the maximum bandwidth capacity; and at least one processor to:
receive input to reserve the maximum bandwidth capacity on the network;process the input to generate a reservation for communicating data between the first network node server and the second network node server by:
assigning the maximum bandwidth capacity to the at least one line-side capacity port;assigning the percentage of the maximum bandwidth capacity to at least one of the plurality of tributary ports;assigning the maximum bandwidth capacity to the at least one other line-side capacity port; andassigning the percentage of the maximum bandwidth capacity to at least one of the other tributary port of the plurality of other tributary ports;receive a second input to increase bandwidth consumption between the first network node server and the second network node server by:
assigning another bandwidth percentage of the maximum bandwidth to at least another one of the plurality of tributary ports; andassigning the another bandwidth percentage of the maximum bandwidth to at least another one of the other tributary ports of the plurality of other tributary ports.