Patent ID: 8451978

Claim:
A method comprising: selecting a first set of digital subscriber lines supported by a digital subscriber line access multiplexor with a computer system, wherein each digital subscriber line of the first set exhibits reduced performance based on historical performance data; sending a request to the digital subscriber line access multiplexor from the computer system for a first performance parameter for each digital subscriber line of the first set of digital subscriber lines; receiving the first performance parameter for each digital subscriber line of the first set of digital subscriber lines at the computer system; removing digital subscriber lines from the first set of digital subscriber lines that have suitable performance based on the first performance parameter of each of the digital subscriber lines to create a second set of digital subscriber lines with the computer system; selecting a line profile to apply to the second set of digital subscriber lines with the computer system; and sending a second request to the digital subscriber line access multiplexor from the computer system to apply the line profile to the digital subscriber lines of the second set of digital subscriber lines and then to determine a second performance parameter for each digital subscriber line of the second set of digital subscriber lines.