Optimal Expansion of Fiber-Optic Telecommunications Networks in Metropolitan Areas

Louis Anthony Cox, Warren E. Kuehner, Scott H. Parrish and Yuping Qiu
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Louis Anthony Cox: U S WEST Advanced Technologies, Science and Technology, 4001 Discovery Drive, Boulder, Colorado 80303
Warren E. Kuehner: U S WEST Spectrum Enterprises, 9785 Maroon Circle, Englewood, Colorado 80112
Scott H. Parrish: U S WEST Advanced Technologies, Science and Technology, 4001 Discovery Drive, Boulder, Colorado 80303
Yuping Qiu: U S WEST Advanced Technologies, Science and Technology, 4001 Discovery Drive, Boulder, Colorado 80303

Interfaces, 1993, vol. 23, issue 2, 35-48

Abstract: Interoffice fiber-optic networks are already a multi-million dollar business for U S WEST Communications, with rapid expansion anticipated for the rest of the decade. U S WEST's operations research modeling group developed a mixed-integer programming model to help plan the least-cost expansion of interoffice fiber-optic networks in major metropolitan areas throughout the 14 midwestern states in U S WEST's territory. The model augments previous telecommunications planning tools by developing explicit optimal expansion plans for multi-year planning horizons. It was tested successfully in 1991 on network and demographic data from Colorado Springs, Colorado. An outgrowth of the model is now being used to design and plan the growth of fiber-optical ring networks in Seattle, Denver, Minneapolis, and other major metropolitan areas throughout U S WEST's region.

Keywords: facilities/equipment planning: capacity expansion; industries: communications (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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