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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2000
Michael Cooperman, Framingham, MA (US);
Albert M. Forcucci, Roslindale, MA (US);
John W. Lovell, Sherborn, MA (US);
Craig A. Armiento, Acton, MA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A method is provided for estimating a number of digital subscriber line nodes ( ) required to supply, from a line supply source ( ), a geographically distributed network of substantially sequentially numbered twisted pair lines with digital subscriber line service. The method comprises the steps of: storing, in number order, data entries for every twisted pair line of the network, each data entry comprising a pair number and a line length of the respective twisted pair line in relation to the line supply source ( ); sorting the entries stored in the database by line length; isolating those sorted entries whose twisted pair lines have a line length greater than a predetermined maximum line length in relation to the line supply source ( ); sorting the isolated entries by number; and discriminating, from the sorted isolated entries, the presence of discrete groupings of substantially contiguous entries.