Patent ID: 7447214

Claim:
A method of provisioning a circuit comprising the steps of: provisioning an Ethernet port facility, including determining members of a Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme Virtual Concatenation Group before virtual tributary or synchronous transport signal cross connections are provisioned and before Synchronous Optical Network or Synchronous Digital Hierarchy cross-connections are provisioned; provisioning virtual tributary or synchronous transport signal cross connections; and provisioning Synchronous Optical Network or Synchronous Digital Hierarchy cross-connections after provisioning virtual tributary or synchronous transport signal cross connections, wherein each member in the Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme Virtual Concatenation Group returns a Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme sink status of FAIL before virtual tributary or synchronous transport signal cross connections are provisioned and before Synchronous Optical Network or Synchronous Digital Hierarchy cross-connections are provisioned and at least one member in the Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme Virtual Concatenation Group returns a Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme sink status of OK after the Synchronous Optical Network or Synchronous Digital Hierarchy cross-connections are provisioned.