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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2010
Filed:
May. 30, 2008
Matthew K. Davis, Broomfield, CO (US);
Dan Jordan, Littleton, CO (US);
Greg Gualtieri, Denver, CO (US);
Richard Terpstra, Superior, CO (US);
Janis Griffin, Longmont, CO (US);
Murli S. Nair, Superior, CO (US);
Susmita G. Saha, Longmont, CO (US);
Matthew K. Davis, Broomfield, CO (US);
Dan Jordan, Littleton, CO (US);
Greg Gualtieri, Denver, CO (US);
Richard Terpstra, Superior, CO (US);
Janis Griffin, Longmont, CO (US);
Murli S. Nair, Superior, CO (US);
Susmita G. Saha, Longmont, CO (US);
Level 3 Communications, LLC, Broomfield, CO (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of a method includes generating one or more route plans, each route plan being associated with a service plan, and provisioning the one or more route plans on a core routing engine accessible by a softswitch for routing calls according to the one or more route plans. The one or more route plans may include an on-net route plan and an off-net route plan. An embodiment of a system includes a local route manager (LRM) configured to generate one or more route plans associated with one or more respective service levels that customers can subscribe to. The system may further include an inventory of trunk groups containing a plurality of trunk group identifiers (IDs), wherein trunk group IDs are marked as either on-net or off-net.