A loop carrier system includes a home local area network having plural telephone
modules and a hub coupled to in-home telephone wiring. The telephone modules and
the hub communicate voice signals over the in-home wiring in a dedicated frequency
band above baseband POTS. The hub converts between voice signals and voice packets
and is connected to a network access device for transferring the voice packets
from the home local area network to a telecommunications network which routes the
voice packets to a gateway. The gateway converts between the voice packets and
a circuit format compatible with a local digital voice switch. A network element
includes a Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)-based server, CORBA-based
managed objects accessible by the CORBA-based server and a CORBA-based applications
programming interface (API). The CORBA-based API is coupled to an external operations
support system which can manage the plural CORBA-based managed objects directly.
