METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SERVICE PROVISIONING IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK

• US 20140003287A1
• Filed: 12/01/2011
• Published: 01/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Xieon Networks S.A.R.L. (Infinera Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks US LLC (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Frantz, Michael, Milev, Mladen, Pasqualini, Sandrine
• Granted Patent: US 10,419,281 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/254
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/741 Holding a request until resources become available
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/781 Centralised allocation of resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/83 based on usage prediction

Abstract

A method and a device for service provisioning in a communication network are provided, wherein a resource is utilized in the communication network, which resource is not yet available for productive use by the network. Also, an according communication system comprising at least one such device is suggested.

Claims

1. A method for service provisioning in a communication network,

wherein a resource is utilized in the communication network, which resource is not yet available for productive use by the network.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein several resources are utilized in several network elements of the communication network, wherein at least one resource of the several resources is not yet available for productive use by the network.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the resource is utilized in a network element of the communication network, which resource is not yet available for productive use by the network.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein a service is configured based on a request;

and based on the service configuration the resource is utilized.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein an order equipment request is issued based on a physical resource identified as being not yet available.

6. The method according to claim 3, wherein a request for provisioning of a virtual resource is issued based on a virtual resource identified as being not yet available.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein upon delivery of the equipment ordered,

the equipment is installed;

and

the service is activated.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein upon provisioning of the virtual resource requested,

the virtual resource is configured in the communication network;

and the service is activated.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the resource is configured via a system database.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein upon availability of the resource, the entry of the system database regarding this resource is used to configure the installed equipment.

11. The method according to claim 6, wherein the request depends on a demand.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the resource may comprise at least one virtual resource.

13. A device comprising a processing unit that is arranged such that the method according to claim 1 is executable thereon.

14. The device according to claim 13, wherein said device comprises a system database of the communication network.

15. A network component of a communication network

comprising a processing unit arranged such that an equipment is configured after delivery of the equipment based on data stored in a database,

wherein the data stored in the database is based on a resource previously utilized by at least one network element of the communication network.

16. The network component according to claim 15, wherein the database is at least partially located in the network component.

17. The network component according to claim 15, wherein the database is a distributed or a centralized database of the communication network.

18. (canceled)