METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVISIONING A COMMUNICATION PATH

摘要

The present invention enables and facilitates real-time provisioning of circuits or other communication paths across multi-carrier, multi-vendor networks. In network having network elements, each network element is associated with an intelligent provisioning node that can inventory the network element to determine the network element's topology, capabilities an d connections. The intelligent provisioning node may form part of a signaling control plane that can manage network elements to provision a circuit betwee n network elements.