Local routing management in a telecommunications network

US7995736B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Level 3 Communications, LLC · US

Inventors

• Matthew K. Davis · Broomfield, US
• Dan Jordan · Calabasas, US
• Greg Gualtieri · Denver, US
• Richard Dean Terpstra · Superior, US
• Janis Griffin · Longmont, US
• Murli S. Nair · Superior, US
• Susmita Saha · Chicago, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 14, 2010
• Grant date: Aug 9, 2011
• Expiry date: Jun 14, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04Q2213/13353
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An embodiment of a method includes generating one or more route plans, each route plan being associated with a service plan, and provisioning the one or more route plans on a core routing engine accessible by a softswitch for routing calls according to the one or more route plans. The one or more route plans may include an on-net route plan and an off-net route plan. An embodiment of a system includes a local route manager (LRM) configured to generate one or more route plans associated with one or more respective service levels that customers can subscribe to. The system may further include an inventory of trunk groups containing a plurality of trunk group identifiers (IDs), wherein trunk group IDs are marked as either on-net or off-net.