Flow-Through Service Provisioning
To a service provider’s operator point of view, subscriber provisioning starts when he is given a list of customer phone numbers, names, and the services, including the ISP, in which the customer wants to subscribe. For each of these customers, a single entry to a provisioning system will trigger the appropriate actions to automatically, qualify a line, provision a DSL line, generate configurations, and download them to the appropriate DSL components. This is called flow-through provisioning. Figure 6-2 shows the same DSL components that need to be configured. A flow-through provisioning system starts at the service request and ends at appropriate configurations downloaded into DSL devices.
Figure 6-2. Flow-Through ...
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