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Title

  • Main Title A year 2003 conceptual model for the U.S. telecommunications infrastructure.

Creator

  • Author: Cox, Roger Gary
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Reinert, Rhonda K.
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

  • Name: Sandia National Laboratories
    Place of Publication: United States

Date

  • Creation: 2003-12-01

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: To model the telecommunications infrastructure and its role and robustness to shocks, we must characterize the business and engineering of telecommunications systems in the year 2003 and beyond. By analogy to environmental systems modeling, we seek to develop a 'conceptual model' for telecommunications. Here, the conceptual model is a list of high-level assumptions consistent with the economic and engineering architectures of telecommunications suppliers and customers, both today and in the near future. We describe the present engineering architectures of the most popular service offerings, and describe the supplier markets in some detail. We also develop a characterization of the customer base for telecommunications services and project its likely response to disruptions in service, base-lining such conjectures against observed behaviors during 9/11.
  • Physical Description: 87 p.

Subject

  • Keyword: Service Sector Systems Engineering.
  • Keyword: Systems Engineering.
  • Keyword: Business
  • Keyword: Economics
  • STI Subject Categories: 99 General And Miscellaneous//Mathematics, Computing, And Information Science
  • Keyword: Mathematical Models
  • Keyword: Communications
  • Keyword: United States
  • Keyword: Telephones
  • Keyword: Telecommunications

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Report No.: SAND2003-4473
  • Grant Number: AC04-94AL85000
  • DOI: 10.2172/918227
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 918227
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc881297
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