Parts of the physical Internet Route you are now using were likely engineered by this Intranet software robotic system. MCI Telecommunications uses these robots to engineer their global networks.

These Software Robots are fully autonomous machines that design network circuits for the telecommunications industry including large portions of the Internet. These complex thinking machines do the same provisioning design work, from start to finish, as network engineers (using the same tools as the engineers). These robots engineer physical hardware routes (the infrastructure) that is the network. The chess pieces that these robots play with are fiber cable, digital switches, muliplexers, line conditioners, echo cancellers, etc.

These Robots are the "logic component parts" of a larger N-Tier Client/Server Intranet system wholly architected by CPrompt. This Intranet system includes: C++ server side Smart Agents (the robots) and Subsystems, Java Applets consoles, data broadcast systems, and web pages.

The first generation Robotics system, deployed many years ago was developed by CPrompt. Kevin Bohacz (president and founder of CPrompt) was the sole architect and developer of this mission-critical software-robot. The second generation of these robots is now on-line. Bohacz was the chief architect and developer of this next generation system which has 10 times the work capacity and 100 times the concurrency of the first generation system. Both generations of the system utilize rules based smart agent technology.

The engineering process that the robots automate is called Private Line Provisioning. The entire engineering process is automated from order entry to finished engineered product. The Robot seeks out work orders, fully engineers them, then go on to the next. These Robots automatically engineer circuits, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for network engineering groups across the country. This product is what automation is all about.

The Robot (and their smart agent components) are fully hardened, absolutely unstoppable. They can withstand mainframe host connection outages, WAN connection drop outs, and operating system crashes (when needed the robots can reboot themselves to recover). A power lost cannot stop them. Once power returns, the robots will pick up work where they left off. Even internal code traps do not stop them. A secure - surviving part of the robot analyzes the cause of the crash then restarts itself and continues the job avoiding the action that caused its crash. The robots and smart agent components communicate with each other (using TCP/IP) sharing both their work and information about the dangers each has encountered.

The Robots are highly parallel. Each system runs multiple agents with each agent running hundreds of threads. The agents and threads in unison perform oversight, self-inspection, hardening tasks, work-seekers, network probes, and inter-robot dialogs, all while provisioning threads play chess games with network hardware laying out dedicated circuits (weaving paths using sites that have unallocated hardware capacity).

The N-Tier computer architecture that the Robotic System interacts with includes mainframe hosts, remote data base servers, several custom servers, and hundreds of Intel based personal computers running Java Clients which produce reports, perform admin, and provide work submissions tools. This is the ultimate client/server architecture where the clients are both robots and end users. These robots span entire global networks.