Patent ID: 7159031

Claim:
A computerized system for providing subscriber control of network parameters comprising: a service processing switch having a plurality of network resources allocatable to one or more virtual routers of a plurality of virtual routers executing within the service processing switch, wherein differing subsets of the plurality of virtual routers are allocatable to each of a plurality of subscribing enterprises; a service provider management server communicably coupled to the service processing switch and operable to configure the plurality of network resources, said configuration including an allocation of a subset of the network resources to a first subscribing enterprise of the plurality of subscribing enterprises by allocating a first set of virtual routers of the plurality of virtual routers to which the subset of the network resources have been allocated to the first subscribing enterprise; a subscriber management server communicably coupled to the service provider management system and operable to further configure the subset of the network resources responsive to configuration requests received from the first subscribing enterprise; and a subscriber management client, associated with the first subscribing enterprise, communicably coupled to the subscriber management server, said subscriber management client operable to cause the subscriber management server to further configure the subset of the network resources as desired by the first subscribing enterprise by issuing the configuration requests to the subscriber management server.