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In the RACE (research for advanced communications in Europe) 2087/TITAN (tool for introduction strategies and techno-economic evaluation of access network) project geometric models have been developed and used to estimate the amount of cable/fibre and ducting required in the network. At the conceptual level the geometric model is a function that takes several inputs such as subscriber density, network topology (star, ring, bus), average cable over length, duct availability etc., and gives two outputs, which are the total amount of cable/fibre required in the network and the total amount of new duct required. The TITAN methodology has used several different geometric models, which are introduced in the following subsections. Various models have been developed in order to model several different area types.
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Welling, I., Tahkokorpi, M., Fleuren, F., Drieskens, M. (1998). Geometric models. In: Ims, L.A. (eds) Broadband Access Networks. Telecommunications Technology and Applications Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5795-1_6
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