System and method for deploying new equipment and services in conjunction with a legacy provisioning system

摘要: In one embodiment, a new device or service can be treated as an abstraction, allowing model to created which mimics operation of the service, but does not physically exist. A communication system may then take physical assets that are distributed around network, such circuit packs with ports on them, and virtually plug them into shelf legacy preferably continues function it always has abstraction mediates between operations support systems, virtual machine reality. This allows for continued use existing systems manage network architectures services different from those originally contemplated by systems.