Patent ID: 11877174
Assignee: CENTURYLINK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
monitoring, with at least one sensor of a telecommunications equipment health monitoring and management system, one or more characteristics of each of at least one of one or more telecommunications equipment in a central office, a remote cabinet, or a digital subscriber line access multiplexer (“DSLAM”), one or more telecommunications equipment batteries within a battery string providing power to telecommunications equipment in a central office, a remote cabinet, or a DSLAM, or one or more battery strings providing power to telecommunications equipment in a central office, a remote cabinet, or a DSLAM;
sending, with the at least one sensor of the telecommunications equipment health monitoring and management system and via a network maintenance tunnel and over a network, the monitored one or more characteristics of each of the at least one of the one or more telecommunications equipment, the one or more telecommunications equipment batteries, or the one or more battery strings;
receiving, with a computing system of the telecommunications equipment health monitoring and management system, the monitored one or more characteristics of each of the at least one of the one or more telecommunications equipment, the one or more telecommunications equipment batteries, or the one or more battery strings;
analyzing, with the computing system of the telecommunications equipment health monitoring and management system, the monitored one or more characteristics of each of the at least one of the one or more telecommunications equipment, the one or more telecommunications equipment batteries, or the one or more battery strings to identify each telecommunications equipment, each telecommunications equipment battery, or each battery string having equipment health issues; and
based on a determination that one or more of at least one telecommunications equipment, at least one telecommunications equipment battery, or at least one battery string have equipment health issues, sending, with the computing system, a notification to a user, the notification comprising information regarding the one or more of the at least one telecommunications equipment, the at least one telecommunications equipment battery, or the at least one battery string having equipment health issues, wherein
the network maintenance tunnel comprises one of a generic routing encapsulation (“GRE”) tunnel, a business support systems (“BSS”) communications line, an operations support systems (“OSS”) communications line, or a virtual private network (“VPN”) communications connection, and
the network maintenance tunnel is a communications tunnel that transfers data over the network without utilizing bandwidth associated with customers of a service provider operating the network.