Patent ID: 7428299

Claim:
A method of provisioning media gateway resources in a network management context, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of managed circuit emulation entities; selecting a group of available managed circuit emulation entities; and setting connection control operational parameters corresponding to a subgroup of available managed circuit emulation entities to configure connection control for each available managed circuit emulation entity, wherein identifying the plurality of managed circuit emulation entities comprises selecting a managed entity from a containment hierarchy specifying hierarchical managed entity associations in support of the network management context, the selection of the managed entity from the containment hierarchy defining a configuration context, wherein setting connection control operational parameters to configure connection control for a managed circuit emulation entity comprises relinquishing connection control for the managed circuit emulation entity over to a media gateway controller, and whereby the bulk identification of the plurality of managed circuit emulation entities in the network management context reduces media gateway resource provisioning overheads in provisioning transport for circuit-switched services over a packet-switched infrastructure.