Patent ID: 8199748

Claim:
A system, comprising: a digital cross connect that includes a plurality of originating ports and a plurality of terminating ports; a plurality of originating lines, at least some of the originating lines each selectively connected to one of the originating ports; a plurality of terminating lines, at least some of the terminating lines each selectively connected to one of the terminating ports; a mapping application that retrieves a mapping from a set of predetermined mappings in a configuration database, stores the mapping in a queue in the database, and executes the mapping from the queue, each mapping including a predetermined set of commands for connecting an originating port to a terminating port in the digital cross connect; and a packet switched network connected to the digital cross connect and the mapping application, wherein the mapping application is configured to determine, prior to issuing a command of the predetermined set of commands, whether the one of the terminating ports and the one of the originating ports requested by a user may be accessed by the user and whether the one of the terminating ports and the one of the originating ports requested by a user may be connected to each other according to a type of line associated with each of the one of the terminating ports and the one of the originating ports.