Patent ID: 7653730

Claim:
A system for establishing a connection through a carrier virtual network, the system comprising: a carrier virtual network manager to manage the carrier virtual network, wherein the carrier virtual network comprises layer one resources dedicated from a plurality of dedicating telecommunication networks to the carrier virtual, wherein the carrier virtual network is accessible by at least one accessing telecommunication network, wherein the plurality of dedicating telecommunication networks and the at least one accessing telecommunication network each represent particular telecommunication networks of layer one resources exclusive from the others and owned by a respective service provider, and wherein the carrier virtual network comprising: a database of connection information regarding portions of the layer one resources of the particular telecommunication networks dedicated to the carrier virtual network by the plurality of dedicating telecommunication networks, the connection information describing how a telecommunication connection may be established using the portions of the layer one resources dedicated to the carrier virtual network; a database of latency information for the layer one resources dedicated to the carrier virtual network, the latency information describing the latency associated with each of the layer one resources dedicated to the carrier virtual network; a routing system to identify possible connections using the portion of the layer one resources dedicated to the carrier virtual network that would establish a connection required by a telecommunication order; a query system to dynamically determine the total latency of an identified possible connection and to dynamically determine whether the total latency of an identified possible connection exceeds service latency level requirements of the telecommunication order; a provisioning system to establish connections within the carrier virtual network based, in part, on the determinations of the query system; and at least one dedicated connection between the carrier virtual network manager and the manager of each of the plurality of dedicating telecommunication networks, the at least one dedicated connection being used to transmit latency information and connection information of the portions of the layer one resources dedicated to the carrier virtual network, wherein the connection information and the latency information is transmitted from the network system manager to the carrier virtual network manager for inclusion in the database of connection information and the database of latency information, respectively.