Overview
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Leif Aarthun Ims
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Telenor Research and Development, Kjeller, Norway
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Introduction
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- Alcibiade Zaganiaris, Kjell Stordahl, Borgar Tørre Olsen, Sotirios Markatos, Leif Aarthun Ims
Pages 1-6
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Access network evolution
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- Mauro Ravera, Stefano Balzaretti, Umberto Ferrero, Marco De Bortoli, Markku Lähteenoja, Jari Mononen
Pages 9-21
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- Leif Aarthun Ims, Mauro Ravera, Stefano Balzaretti, Umberto Ferrero, Marco De Bortoli, Kjell Stordahl et al.
Pages 39-50
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Methodology and tool for techno-economic evaluation of the access network
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- Markku Lähteenoja, Jari Mononen, Markku Tahkokorpi, Ilari Welling, Frank Fleuren, Marc Drieskens et al.
Pages 53-62
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- Ilari Welling, Markku Tahkokorpi, Frank Fleuren, Marc Drieskens
Pages 63-73
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- Eduardo de Castro, Manuel de Oliveira Duarte
Pages 75-86
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Case studies and application results
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Front Matter
Pages 115-115
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- Borgar Tørre Olsen, Kjell Stordahl, Alcibiade Zaganiaris, Nikolaus Gieschen, Markku Tahkokorpi, Marc Drieskens et al.
Pages 117-128
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- Rolf B. Haugen, Borgar Tørre Olsen, Bjørn Erik Eskedal
Pages 129-141
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- Leif Aarthun Ims, Borgar Tørre Olsen, Dagfinn Myhre, Markku Lähteenoja, Jari Mononen, Umberto Ferrero et al.
Pages 143-163
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- Leif Aarthun Ims, Borgar Tørre Olsen, Kjell Stordahl, Dagfinn Myhre, Alcibiade Zaganiaris
Pages 165-179
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- Ilari Welling, Markku Tahkokorpi
Pages 181-210
About this book
The access network is expected to be one of the major battlegrounds of telecommunications network operators, since upgrades of the existing narrowband access network will be the critical factor in supplying multimedia broadband services in a competitive market. The future broadband access network architecture needs to be flexible enough to efficiently support the provision of a full set of broadband and narrowband services with a wide range of capacity demands. A wide range of broadband access technologies are available. Furthermore, the key issues in the upgrading of the very cost sensitive access network are financial as well as technological, both for incumbent and new entrant operators. Thus, in order to identify minimum-risk introductory strategies the economic viability of access network broadband upgrades needs to be carefully assessed. However, despite the definite need for techno-economic evaluations, very few books have been published in this field. One of the reasons might be that broadband access network upgrading only very recently gained wide recognition as a key challenge for broadband delivery. Secondly, this kind of strategic work and these studies tend to be considered rather sensitive by operators, and thus both results and methodologies are not usually readily available. Thirdly, the work reported in this book in many respects was a major pioneering effort, which quite ambitiously aimed at modelling the whole life-cycle costs and revenue streams of access network upgrades, as opposed to several other efforts, which often are limited to pure investment cost comparisons.
Editors and Affiliations
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Telenor Research and Development, Kjeller, Norway
Leif Aarthun Ims
