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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2003
Michael Green, Central Valley, NY (US);
Michael Green, Central Valley, NY (US);
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A system and method provides the capability to provision and setup an end-to-end circuit that does not require the performance of extra, manual management link addition/removal procedures after all facilities and VT/STS cross connections have been provisioned. A method of provisioning a circuit comprises the steps of provisioning an Ethernet port facility, including determining a members of a Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme Virtual Concatenation Group before virtual tributary or synchronous transport signal cross connections are provisioned and before Synchronous Optical Network or Synchronous Digital Hierarchy cross-connections are provisioned; provisioning virtual tributary or synchronous transport signal cross connections; and provisioning Synchronous Optical Network or Synchronous Digital Hierarchy cross-connections.