Patent ID: 7352853

Claim:
A method of automating provisioning of network services for customer premises equipment of a subscriber in a next generation digital telecommunications network, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a service request from a network service provider that comprises information uniquely identifying the customer premises equipment to be provisioned, and a service to be provided by the customer premises equipment; receiving information indicating that access is provisioned for a subscriber associated with the customer premises equipment and that one or more permanent virtual circuits are established in network elements of the network for facilitating the access; retrieving a configuration template for a configuration appropriate for the customer premises equipment; allocating and reserving at least one resource associated with the customer premises equipment; allocating and reserving network addresses for a voice signaling channel and a bearer channel associated with communications between the customer premises equipment and the network; updating a domain name service server with information that associates the allocated and reserved network addresses with the customer premises equipment; creating and storing one or more mappings for the permanent virtual circuits in a switch device that directs network communications to the customer premises equipment; generating configuration data for the customer premises equipment based on the configuration template and stored system configuration information; and delivering the configuration data over the network to the customer premises equipment to result in provisioning the customer premises equipment to provide the service.