Patent ID: 7890618

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, comprising computer instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to at least: receive a request to provision a network circuit, wherein the network circuit comprising a logical circuit and a physical circuit, wherein the request includes including information defining transmission characteristics of the logical circuit and the physical circuit for assigning physical equipment needed for installing the physical circuit; transmit the request and instructions to provision the logical circuit to a legacy logical element module without manual intervention, the instructions to be utilized by the legacy logical element module to configure the logical circuit, configuring the logical circuit comprising accessing and programming at least one network device port to send data describing a logical data path to at least one network device in communication with the legacy logical element module; and obtain logical circuit data for maintaining to maintain the network circuit by: sending a request to the logical element module to obtain the logical circuit data which retrieves the logical circuit data from the at least one network device having access to the network circuit, and receiving the logical circuit data from the logical element module.