Automation of customer premises equipment provisioning in a telecommunications network
First Claim
1. A method of provisioning a next generation telecommunications network to provide network services, comprising:
- receiving a service request that specifies a service to be provided to customer premises equipment in the next generation network;
creating and storing information that represents a logical decomposition of the next generation network into a plurality of discrete functional areas;
analyzing the information representing the functional areas to identify one or more provisioning requirements for each of the functional areas;
defining one or more provisioning procedures and identifying one or more tools based on the provisioning requirements;
creating and storing a provisioning plan that includes a sequenced execution of the defined procedures and identified tools;
executing the procedures and tools in the provisioning plan in the sequence identified therein to provision the next generation network to provide the specified service.
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Abstract
A method to systematically analyze a next generation telecommunications network to result in creating a provisioning plan for provisioning the network to provide services for one or more subscribers. In one specific embodiment, the method involves creating and storing information that represents a logical decomposition of the next generation network into a plurality of discrete functional areas. The information representing the functional areas is analyzed to identify one or more provisioning requirements for each of the functional areas. One or more provisioning procedures are determined, and one or more required provisioning tools are identified for each of the functional areas, based on the provisioning requirements. A sequence of execution of the procedures and tools is created and stored as a provisioning plan.
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33 Claims
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1. A method of provisioning a next generation telecommunications network to provide network services, comprising:
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receiving a service request that specifies a service to be provided to customer premises equipment in the next generation network; creating and storing information that represents a logical decomposition of the next generation network into a plurality of discrete functional areas; analyzing the information representing the functional areas to identify one or more provisioning requirements for each of the functional areas; defining one or more provisioning procedures and identifying one or more tools based on the provisioning requirements; creating and storing a provisioning plan that includes a sequenced execution of the defined procedures and identified tools; executing the procedures and tools in the provisioning plan in the sequence identified therein to provision the next generation network to provide the specified service. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An apparatus for provisioning a next generation network to provide network services, the apparatus comprising:
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one or more processors; a network communicatively coupled to the processors and configured to communicate one or more packet flows among the processors and a network; and a computer readable storage medium comprising one or more sequences of instructions for provisioning a next generation network, which instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform; receiving a service request that specifies a service to be provided to customer premises equipment in the next generation network; creating and storing information that represents a logical decomposition of the next generation network into a plurality of discrete functional areas; analyzing the information representing the functional areas to identify one or more provisioning requirements for each of the functional areas; defining one or more provisioning procedures and identifying one or more tools based on the provisioning requirements; creating and storing a provisioning plan that includes a sequenced execution of the defined procedures and identified tools; executing the procedures and tools in the provisioning plan in the sequence identified therein to provision the next generation network to provide the specified service. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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15. A computer-readable storage medium encoded with one or more sequences of computer-executable instructions for provisioning network service in a next generation telecommunications network, which instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to carry out the steps of:
- receiving a service request that specifies a service to be provided to customer premises equipment in the next generation network;
creating and storing information that represents a logical decomposition of the next generation network into a plurality of discrete functional areas;
analyzing the information representing the functional areas to identify one or more provisioning requirements for each of the functional areas;
defining one or more provisioning procedures and identifying one or more tools based on the provisioning requirements;
creating and storing a provisioning plan that includes a sequenced execution of the defined procedures and identified tools;
executing the procedures and tools in the provisioning plan in the sequence identified therein to provision the next generation network to provide the specified service.
- receiving a service request that specifies a service to be provided to customer premises equipment in the next generation network;
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16. A next generation network telecommunications system comprising logical discrete functional areas of:
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a subscriber customer premises equipment area comprising one or more customer premises equipment devices that deliver services to a subscriber; an access network and core network area comprising one or more network devices at access edge and core that provide connectivity to subscriber customer premises equipment devices; and a switch and other processors area comprising one or more next generation network components that provide network services; said next generation network telecommunications system additionally comprising; an electronic memory coupled to one or more processors; one or more stored program instructions stored in the memory, which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the steps of; receiving a service request that specifies a service to be provided to customer premises equipment in the next generation network; creating and storing information that represents a logical decomposition of the next generation network into a plurality of discrete functional areas; analyzing the information representing the functional areas to identify one or more provisioning requirements for each of the functional areas; defining one or more provisioning procedures and identifying one or more tools based on the provisioning requirements; creating and storing a provisioning plan that includes a sequenced execution of the defined procedures and identified tools; executing the procedures and tools in the provisioning plan in the sequence identified therein to provision the next generation network to provide the specified service. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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