Patent ID: 7760664

Claim:
A network provisioning system for establishing a path between at least a first network element and at least a second network element, said at least a first network element and said at least a second network element being interconnected through a digital cross connect system, said system comprising: a routing manager computer comprising an inventory subsystem and a routing engine, wherein the inventory subsystem is configured to model each of said at least a first network element and said at least a second network element as one or more routing nodes in a graph, said graph comprising a plurality of routing nodes and a plurality of links interconnecting said plurality of routing nodes; and wherein the routing engine is configured to use said graph for determining a path between said at least a first network element and said at least a second network element, wherein the inventory subsystem models said digital cross connect system as a link between said at least a first network element and said at least a second network element; and a cross connection status database configured to store a status of each interconnection of said plurality of routing nodes, wherein the status indicates whether a cross-connection using said digital cross connect was successfully provisioned.