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This article describes the ASSIST (Almighty Suitable design Support To
ol) system that was put into operation in September 1994 to support th
e activities involved in proposing and designing private networks (PNW
s)1 for corporate customers. The development of this system to suppor
t these activities, which used to be done manually, has substantially
reduced the time and manpower involved.