Arachne: Planning the Interoffice Facilities Network at NYNEX

Tal Barnea, Dan Benanav, Kabir Dutta, Ivy Eisenberg, Jim Euchner, Elissa Gilbert, Afshin Goodarzi, Edwin Lee, Yu-Ling Lin, John Martin, Justin Peterson, Randy Pope, Rangu Salgame, Gary Sevitsky and Sanjeev Sardana
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Tal Barnea: NYNEX Science and Technology, 500 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, New York 10604
Dan Benanav: NYNEX Science and Technology, 500 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, New York 10604
Kabir Dutta: NYNEX Science and Technology, 500 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, New York 10604
Ivy Eisenberg: NYNEX Science and Technology, 500 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, New York 10604
Jim Euchner: NYNEX Science and Technology, 500 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, New York 10604
Elissa Gilbert: NYNEX Science and Technology, 500 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, New York 10604
Afshin Goodarzi: NYNEX Science and Technology, 500 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, New York 10604
Edwin Lee: NYNEX Science and Technology, 500 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, New York 10604
Yu-Ling Lin: NYNEX Science and Technology, 500 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, New York 10604
John Martin: NYNEX Science and Technology, 500 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, New York 10604
Justin Peterson: NYNEX Science and Technology, 500 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, New York 10604
Randy Pope: NYNEX Science and Technology, 500 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, New York 10604
Rangu Salgame: NYNEX Science and Technology, 500 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, New York 10604
Gary Sevitsky: NYNEX Science and Technology, 500 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, New York 10604
Sanjeev Sardana: UNISYS Corporation, Township Line and Union Meeting Roads, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania 19424

Interfaces, 1996, vol. 26, issue 1, 85-101

Abstract: Arachne is a decision-support system developed by NYNEX to automate its interoffice facilities planning. Planning is a highly complex process, and the decisions made result in the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars each year. By integrating heuristic rules and optimization techniques in an innovative manner, Arachne has fundamentally changed the nature of network planning at NYNEX. Arachne improves the reliability and quality of the network plans, reduces the time it takes to complete the planning task, and has led to savings of at least $33 million dollars to date. In addition to supporting the planning task, Arachne also provides a means of exploring new network technologies and planning strategies.

Keywords: industries: communications; planning: corporate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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