Abstract: A craft interface device for accessing a telecommunications network having several levels or layers of interactive structure has a graphical user interface for displaying on a monitor a sequence graphical representations of operatively interconnected objects in a respective layer of the telecommunications network, whereby a user can navigate graphically through the network from a highest hierarchical level of objects to a lowest hierarchical level of objects and operational interrelationships. The graphical user interface is operatively connected to a display interactive user input component (e.g., a mouse) for detecting user selection via the input component of a broadband first end point displayed in a first window by the graphical user interface and a broadband second end point displayed in a second window by the graphical user interface.

Abstract: A craft interface device for accessing, maintaining and provisioning a telecommunications network includes a graphical user interface, a domain modeling framework, and a communications framework which includes a parser. The graphical user interface is operatively connected to a monitor for displaying thereon structural components of the telecommunications network and for indicating, on the monitor, operating relationships among the structural components. The domain modeling framework is operatively connected to the graphical user interface for supplying thereto descriptions of the objects to be displayed. The communications framework is operatively connected to the domain modeling framework for generating and transmitting, in response to user commands detected by the graphical user interface, data requests over a data link of the network and for reading data lines arriving from the network.