Patent ID: 7236587

Claim:
A system for analyzing the diversity of critical telecommunication circuits, the system comprising: a first database comprising information about a plurality of telecommunication circuits, wherein the plurality of circuits includes a set of critical circuits comprising two or more complete critical circuits that perform the same critical function selected from the group consisting of emergency services network circuits, air traffic control system network circuits, and Signaling System 7 (“SS7”) network circuits (“critical circuit set”); a computer in communication with the first database, wherein the computer has instructions executable to analyze the diversity of the set of complete critical circuits; wherein the critical circuit set comprises at least a first complete critical circuit and a second complete critical circuit which perform the same critical function, and wherein analyzing the diversity of the set of complete critical circuits comprises: identifying a first set of telecommunication resources associated with the first complete critical circuit; identifying a second set of telecommunication resources associated with the second complete critical circuit; and comparing the identified telecommunication resources associated with each complete critical circuit to determine whether the critical circuit set is diverse.