Methods and systems for proactively maintaining Digital Loop Carriers and
a telephone system local loop. One embodiment for proactively maintaining a Digital
Loop Carrier in a telephone system local loop includes communicating with a communications
network and acquiring status information associated with the Digital Loop Carrier.
Proactive maintenance is predicted based upon the status information. The status
information may be weighted. The status information may also be combined with information
from a Dynamic Network Analyzer and information from a Loop Facilities and Control
System. The embodiment may also generate and dispatch work order information describing
the predicted proactive maintenance. A further embodiment includes communicating
with a communications network and acquiring at least one of customer information
associated with copper line pairs, service information associated with copper line
pairs, and status information associated with a Digital Loop Carrier. The acquired
information is stored and combined. Proactive maintenance of the telephone system
local loop is predicted based upon the combined information.