Patent ID: 7042880
Filing Date: 2006-05-09
Classification: H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
1. A system of assessing and reporting operations in an access data network, said system providing services to customer premises equipment of an identified one customer through the access data network, said system comprising: a communication access node coupled to a wide area internetwork; a plurality of digital subscriber line transceivers, coupled to network ends of subscriber lines, for data communication with transceivers coupled to respective customer premises ends of respective subscriber lines; an access switch coupled for data communications with the digital subscriber line transceivers, for receiving data from customer premises equipment via respective ones of the digital subscriber line transceivers and for supplying data intended for transmission to line transceivers; a high-speed data link between said access switch and said communication access node; a local services network coupled locally to said access switch, wherein said access switch segregates upstream traffic from the respective customer premises equipment between said local services network and said high-speed data link to said communication access node, and said access switch aggregates downstream traffic from said local services network and said high speed data link from said communication access node for transmission to the respective customer premises equipment; a server coupled to said local services network; a user terminal adapted to conduct an interactive session with said server to initiate assessing and reporting operations; wherein said user terminal and said server are configured automatically to determine at least one state of the access data network in relation to a provision of the service to said customer premises equipment of the identified one customer through the access data network and to communicate information regarding said at least one state of the access data network to said user terminal for presentation to a user.