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Part of a series on advanced technology
deployment, A Snapshot in Time provides a snapshot in time of investments and
interconnection pricing structures associated with local telephone company
switches. This paper describes how changes in the way customers
use networks (specifically, the increased use of faxes, Internet, point of
sale, and other data services) cause dramatic changes in the underlying
assumptions about how networks need to be engineered. A Snapshot in Time
also
models engineering considerations that determine the cost of
interconnection. These include three basic network elements, traffic
patterns, and shared/unshared facilities costs.
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