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This paper documents a model that was pivotal in deciding which of two architectures should be selected for a frame relay data communications network. The choices are either to continue using the current architecture, or to make a large incremental investment in new equipment which reduces the number of high speed inter-office trunks required to interconnect the switches. The analysis requires optimizing the mix of two types of customer port cards to determine the maximum customer port capacity of a switch. Simple approximations are used to estimate the number of inter-office trunks and trunk cards required. Based in large part on the costs computed by this model, an executive level decision was made to move to the new architecture.
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Rosenberg, E. Telecommunications Network Case Study: Selecting a Data Network Architecture. Journal of Heuristics 6, 9–20 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009657525129
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009657525129