Patent ID: 8661104
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of planning capacity requirements of a telecommunications network, comprising: collecting granular data at a user-level including user bandwidth consumption and at a system-level including equipment associated with provisioning of telecommunication services over a telecommunications network; storing the collected user-level data in a database; presenting an interface for receiving selection of modeling parameters to apply to the collected user-level data in the database to allow a plurality of network scenarios to be analyzed, including a subscriber count and market selection; generating model results specific to the selected modeling parameters by first reconstructing bandwidth consumption at the user-level based on the user-level granular data and subsequently making projections of bandwidth capacity needs upstream through the telecommunications network from the reconstructed bandwidth consumption at the user-level; and combining or splitting nodes based on a summary of input data associated with the generated model results specific to the selected modeling parameters and a summary of output data projecting network upgrade requirements based on the generated model results specific to the selected modeling parameters.