Patent ID: 6832249
Filing Date: 2004-12-14
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method for providing broadband communications over a multi-layered network having a plurality of Open System Interconnection (OSI) reference model layers functioning therein, comprising:monitoring at least one OSI reference model layer functioning in the multi-layered network; determining that a quality of service event has occurred in the multi-layered network; determining that the quality of service event occurred at layer 3 in the OSI reference model and that the layer 3 quality of service event is related to an Internet Protocol (IP); responding to the quality of service event in the multi-layered network by changing network provisioning at layer 1 in the OSI reference model, wherein the change at layer 1 includes provisioning additional fiber optic circuits in the multi-layered network; and signaling that the network provisioning at layer 1 of the OSI reference model has been changed.