At+t Corp.

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

James Caldwell

Hossein Eslambolchi

William D Yates

Houssam Halabi

James Michael Hopkins

Kirk Warrenburg

Todd R Bermudez

John Begalke

Danny Chism

Roy DeFrain

Debra Laxton

Andrew Grigg

A method and apparatus for monitoring link diversity between two communication networks are disclosed. Physical diversity of communication links are important to guarantee service availability and reliability. Diversity monitoring can be achieved by using routing information of the communication links.

Method and apparatus for monitoring link diversity

A telephone network voting system is configured to process a large number of calls. The system receives telephone ballots cast by voters by dialing an 8YY telephone number. The telephone ballots are received by network edge switch (NES) from a local exchange carrier (LEC), and sequentially received calls are routed to a repeating sequence of segmentation databases (SDs). The SDs are configured for routing calls in a sequentially received series of 8YY calls to a repeating sequence of said NCPs. Switches are mapped to NCPs to minimize congestion on A and AA links. Call announcements are stored in disk cache.

High capacity advanced 8YY mass calling event network architecture

Provisioning of dedicated service in a communications network is made more efficient by creating a service path, ( ) that includes a permanent service communications link ( ) between an automatically remotely provisionable cross-connect system ( ) and a network gateway element ( ), such as a cross-connect device or a telecommunications switch. The service communications link remains active to carry traffic notwithstanding whether the automatically remotely provisionable cross-connection system is provisioned to provide dedicated subscriber service, or to terminate such service. In this way, service may be re-provisioned by appropriately provisioning the cross-connect device without the need to dispatch a technician to re-establish a link between the cross-connect system and the network gateway device.

Automated remote provisioning technique

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Demossville, KY, United States of America

James Caldwell