1. A method for provisioning a circuit between a starting network element and an ending network element, comprising: (a) representing network elements within a network as a plurality of area objects; (b) representing communications links between two areas as a bridge object, each bridge having at least one communications link, each communications link comprising at least one channel; (c) iteratively performing the following tasks until selections enabling the provisioning of said circuit are made: (c 1 ) expanding a selected area to display a corresponding network element; (c 2 ) expanding a selected bridge to display a corresponding at least one communications link; (c 3 ) highlighting each selected network element, communications link and communications channel