Transforming the Local Exchange Network: Eighth Edition
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By Lawrence K. Vanston, Ph.D. & Ray L. Hodges
Description
What You Will Gain
Who Should Read this Report?
Table of Contents
Pricing/Ordering information
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This report presents the latest TFI forecasts covering switching, circuit equipment, metallic cable, and fiber cable. The report also includes TFI's latest recommendations on depreciation lives for local exchange telephone plant, focusing on legacy assets. The recommendations take into account technology displacement and loss of access lines due to competition.
What You Will Gain [back to top
- Analysis and quantification of access line loss occurring in the local exchange and its resulting stranding of plants.
- Forecasts of the transition from a narrowband network of circuit switches and copper cables to a broadband network of packet switches and fiber optics.
- Description of what the new network will look like and the combination of services it will offer.
- Forecasts of how quickly technology change and access line losses will affect obsolescence and reduce the lives of telecommunications equipment.
Who Should Read this Report? [back to top
- Local exchange carriers
- Depreciation professionals
- Property tax professionals
- Regulatory personnel
- Telecom equipment manufacturers
Table of Contents [back to top]
- Acknowledgements iii
- Chapter 1: Introduction and Summary
- Chapter 2: Losses in ILEC Access Lines and DSL Connections
- Chapter 3: Broadband Data Rates
- Chapter 4: VHS Broadband Deployment
Chapter 5: The Transfer of Legacy Services to VHS Broadband Facilities
- Chapter 6: Metallic Cable
- Chapter 7: Non-Metallic Cable
- Chapter 8: Switching Equipment
- Chapter 9: Circuit Equipment
- Chapter 10: Summary
- Attachment A: Survivor Tables
- Attachment B: Author Biographies
- Attachment C: Author Publications
Pricing/Ordering Information [back to top]
2018, 76 pagesThis report was produced by Technology Futures, Inc. (TFI) on behalf of the Telecommunications Technology Forecasting Group (TTFG), now part of the Communications Technology Forecasting Group (CTFG), comprised of AT&T, Charter, Comcast, and Cox.
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