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Welcome to the COVAD xLink Resource Center. This site provides information about the Covad xLink API to assist developers in implementing flow-through ordering with Covad.
- What is Covad xLink?
- An XML-based application programming interface to enable flow-through DSL provisioning between Covad and its channel partners to create a seamless supply chain.
This platform allows channel partners to quickly and easily add DSL to their product portfolio.
For Your Information
Current xLink API Modules
See
http://xapi.covad.com/dtd/ for the production DTDs.
See
http://xapi-test.covad.com/dtd/ for the development DTDs, generally pre-deployed there two weeks before a production release.
Click
here to download the current DTDs.
xLink DTD Update Schedule
To improve the stability and completeness of our testbed prior to a release, we are altering our pre-deployent schedule slightly. You can read more about this change
here.
We deployed the current release to Production on the night of 8 October 2009 and will deploy our next release on the night of 10 December. We will update xapi-test with the upcoming release on 30 November, scheduled to start at 8:00pm Pacific time that night and finishing at 4:00am the next morning. During that time, xapi-test will be unavailable.
Our previous Production release occurred during the night of 20 August 2009.
Please login to Connect and visit the "OSS information" section of the Connect Library to learn more about the current release.
Documentation
xLink DTD Reference v 1.2 (updated 15 Nov 2005)
Notes
Please e-mail
xlink-support@covad.com if you need information from previous releases.