Andalucía Assesses the Investment Needed to Deploy a Fiber-Optic Network

Pablo Cortes (), Jesus Muñuzuri (), Luis Onieva, Juan Larrañeta (), Juan M. Vozmediano () and Jose C. Alarcon ()
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Pablo Cortes: Ingeniería de Organización, Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Seville University, Camino de los Descubrimientos s/n, 41092, Seville, Spain
Jesus Muñuzuri: Asociación de Investigación y Cooperación Industrial de Andalucía (AICIA), Camino de los Descubrimientos s/n, 41092, Seville, Spain
Juan Larrañeta: Ingeniería de Organización, Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Seville University, Camino de los Descubrimientos s/n, 41092, Seville, Spain
Juan M. Vozmediano: Ingeniería Telemática, Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Seville University, Camino de los Descubrimientos s/n, 41092, Seville, Spain
Jose C. Alarcon: Secretaría General de Sistemas de Información y Telecomunicaciones, Consejería de la Presidencia, Junta de Andalucía, Avda. de la Borbolla, 1, Seville, Spain

Interfaces, 2006, vol. 36, issue 2, 105-117

Abstract: Setting up fiber-optic telecommunication networks requires large investments. The regional government of Andalusia assigned us the task of developing a tool capable of evaluating the deployment cost of a network to connect large cities and also to include smaller towns, to prevent their falling behind in the information society. The Andalusian regional government aimed to deploy a network capable of accessing most of the municipalities in the region, even those municipalities that could not be profitable from a monetary perspective. We developed a nonlinear mathematical-programming model with special focus on the investment costs. These costs included the costs of civil-engineering work, as well as those for deploying telematic links. We solved this complex problem using a genetic algorithm that we had previously tested with a set of trial problems. The government used the results to persuade private companies to expand their fiber-optic networks to reach small towns.

Keywords: communication; networks; decision analysis; applications (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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