Title :
Economic evaluation of a mature ATM network
Author :
Anagnostou, Miltiades E. ; Cuthbert, Laurie ; Lyratzis, Tassos D. ; Pitts, Jonathan M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece
fDate :
12/1/1992 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The economic evaluation of a mature ATM network is presented. The authors discuss the issues involved and present two examples. Four customer categories are taken into account, namely residential, small business, medium business, and large business customers. The aim is to introduce a simple meaningful model, which incorporates the most important factors that influence the economic viability of an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network, and to present the limits and limitations of the area of economic evaluation. The revenue, cost, and net income (of the network operator) are calculated for two different scenarios, that is with and without residential customers
Keywords :
B-ISDN; asynchronous transfer mode; economics; tariffs; B-ISDN; asynchronous transfer mode; cost; economic evaluation; large business customers; mature ATM network; medium business customers; net income; residential customers; revenue; small business customers; tariffs; Asynchronous transfer mode; Communication switching; Computer science; Costs; Design engineering; Design optimization; Europe; Helium; Intserv networks; Prototypes;
Journal_Title :
Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on
