Configuration for providing a communication service

A system to provide communication services from a communication service provider, the system comprising:

• a plurality of resources, including one or more computing systems and/or one or more network elements, of the communication service provider configured to provide a plurality of communication services to a plurality of customers over a network;
• a service designer computing system lined to the plurality of resources and configured to:
• receive service design parameters for a communication service provided by the communication service provider;
• identify a root node in a service design catalog corresponding to the service design parameters;
• create a service design by traversing from the root node through one or more subsequent child nodes defined by the service design catalog based on the service design parameters until one or more leaf nodes indicated by the service design catalog are reached, wherein each child node of the one or more subsequent child nodes is selected relative to one or more other potential child nodes to satisfy a parameter of the service design parameters and represents a resource of the plurality of resources, wherein each of the one or more other potential child nodes satisfies a different possible parameter from the parameter included in the service design parameters and represents a different resource of the plurality of resources;
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• configure one or more resource facing services and resources represented by nodes traversed in the service design in accordance with the service design;
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• the plurality of resources configured to provide the communication service to customer equipment of a customer of the plurality of customers.

A system for a resource that provides communication services from a communication service provider to a plurality of customers, the system comprising:

• a communication interface of the resource configured to receive a configuration from a service design computing system, wherein the service design computing system:
• receives service design parameters for a communication service provided by the communication service provider;
• identifies a root node in a service design catalog corresponding to the service design parameters;
• creates a service design by traversing from the root node through one or more subsequent child nodes defined by the service design catalog based on the service design parameters until one or more leaf nodes indicated by the service design catalog are reached, wherein a child node of the one or more subsequent child nodes is selected relative to one or more other potential child nodes to satisfy a parameter of the service design parameters, wherein each of the one or more other potential child nodes satisfies a different possible parameter from the parameter included in the service design parameters;
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• configures one or more resource facing services and resources, including the resource, represented by nodes traversed in the service design in accordance with the service design;
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• a processing system configured to provide the communication service via the communication interface to customer equipment of a customer of the plurality of customers.