Cost effectiveness of site reduction in optical access network: A capex based comparison of different technologies

ICTON 2009: 11th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lange, Christoph ^a   Breuer, Dirk ^a   Huelsermann, Ralf ^a  

^a DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capital expenditures (CapEx); Optical access networks; Passive optical networks (PON); Techno economic analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCESS NETWORK; ACCESS NODE; BIT RATES; CAPITAL EXPENDITURES (CAPEX); COPPER CABLES; COPPER-BASED; COST MODELS; COST-EFFICIENT; COST-EFFICIENT OPERATIONS; CUSTOMER PREMISE; INSTALLATION COSTS; NETWORK NODE; NETWORK OPERATOR; NETWORK STRUCTURES; NETWORK TERMINALS; OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORKS; OPTICAL FIBRE; OPTICAL REACH; PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS (PON); SERVICE AREA; TECHNO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

COSTS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PASSIVE NETWORKS;

TRANSPARENT OPTICAL NETWORKS;

EID: 70449574517     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2009.5185100     Document Type: Conference Paper

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