Method for verifying newly provisioned customer network route advertisements

A method for verifying and implementing a request to advertise a newly provisioned route in a data communications network, comprising the steps of:

• receiving at a network provisioning system a customer-generated request to advertise a newly provisioned route;
• validating the advertisement for the newly provisioned route and rejecting said route advertisement if unable to be verified;
• entering the customer-generated route advertisement into an official routing database to make such route advertisement available to providers of network access;
• and
• periodically checking at least one of such providers of network access to verify whether such route advertisement remains effective.

A method for verifying and implementing a requested withdrawal of an advertised route in a data communications network, comprising the steps of:

• receiving at a network provisioning system a customer-generated request to withdraw an existing route advertisement;
• entering the customer-generated route withdrawal request into an official routing database to make such route withdrawal request to providers of network access;
• and
• periodically checking at least one of such providers of network access to verify whether such route withdrawal request remains effective.