Adding new voice service to exhausted rural cable routes, presents Local Exchange Carriers (LECs) with a unique set of challenges where (1) an immediate service order response is needed and (2) the demand for service, along the typically “long thin” rural route, does not justify extensive cable rearrangements, cable placements or a Digital Loop Carrier (DLC) installation. Additionally, LECs must also ensure that any solution they deploy to meet these challenges must also be capable of delivering