Patent ID: 7515692

Claim:
A method for qualifying a telephone line for very-high-bit-rate digital subscriber line (“VDSL”) service, comprising: querying a network database for an equivalent working length (“EWL”) of a neighboring telephone line, the network database comprising a plurality of determined VDSL qualifications and a plurality of telephone makeup information for at least one or more telephone lines neighboring a telephone line; determining whether to prequalify the telephone line for VDSL service based on an EWL of the telephone line and the EWL of the neighboring telephone line; measuring a VDSL rate of the telephone line; determining whether to qualify the telephone line as VDSL data qualified based on the measured VDSL rate and a VDSL rate threshold; measuring a VDSL video quality of the telephone line; determining whether to qualify the telephone line as VDSL video qualified based on the measured VDSL video quality; and updating the network database with the determined VDSL data qualification and the VDSL video qualification of the telephone line.