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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1997
James L. Caldwell, DeMossville, KY (US);
Hossein Eslambolchi, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Houssam Halabi, Freehold, NJ (US);
James Michael Hopkins, Morristown, NJ (US);
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
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.