Patent ID: 8811571
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A telecommunications access network including: a plurality of telecommunications lines, a plurality of aggregation devices, a plurality of data collector modules and a line provisioning and de-provisioning system, wherein each line is connected between customer premises equipment and a line aggregation device, the access network being operable to provide a data connection through at least one of the lines to a core network whereby network services may be provided over the network to the customer premises equipment, the access network further including a management module for managing the lines within the access network, the management module being operable to receive aggregated performance data from a plurality of data collector modules, each data collector module being operable to receive performance data from a plurality of the line aggregation devices, the network further comprising a file check module, the file check module having a line status database for storing information about the lines which are managed by the management module including the identity of the line aggregation device to which each line is connected and means for receiving information from the line provisioning and de-provisioning system and means for using the information received from the line-provisioning and de-provisioning system to maintain the file check module's database current; the file check module further comprising receiving means for receiving received data information from the management module specifying what performance data it has received and comparison means for comparing the received data information with data from the database to generate comparison data, and output means for outputting the generated comparison data.