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

Volume

10

Issue

9

fYear

1992

fDate

12/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1503

Lastpage

1509

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/49.184879

Filename

184879