Roll-out of Reliable Fibre to the Cabinet: an Interactive Planning Approach
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In this paper a total approach is presented for interactive planning of a reliable Fibre to the Cabinet network. Interactive means here that planning of areas with 600 to 1000 cabinets can be planned roughly within minutes. The problem of telecom operators, when planning Fibre to the Cabinet, is to find the minimum number of cabinets that is equipped with active equipment such that a required number of customers is within a targeted distance from an activated cabinet. Next these activated cabinets need to be clustered and connected with a highly reliable fibre ring, satisfying capacity constraints. A three step approach is described: an Activation problem, a Cluster problem and a Routing problem, each in a heuristic approach. The paper shows that the total interactive approach is indeed possible by presenting several real life cases.
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TNO Identifier
505065
Source
Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, 6(8), pp. 705-717.
Pages
705-717
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