Network Element Inventory Recovery System (NEIRS) allows carriers to automate following processes:

• Verification of high capacity provisioning orders.
  
  
• Proactively performs cycle check of cross connections between Intelligent network Elements and trunk inventory system.


• Automatically and manually corrects trunk inventory system.
  

NEIRS allows following benefits to carriers:

• Recovery of stranded inventory assets, potentially decreasing both costs and increasing revenue.
  
  
• Decrease in mean time to service. By decreasing mean time to service, NEIRS potentially reduces labor cost of provisioning and increases sales.
  
  
• Potentially reducing unnecessary construction costs due to additional  resources, when none was necessary.
  
  
• Decrease the mean time to repair and potentially increasing sales and customer retention.
  
  
• Potential in sales and customer retention due to reduction in mean time to service.
  
  
• Potential increase in customer retention due to improvement in billing accuracy.