id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-030423-0fjlz3lf Libório, Matheus Pereira Expand or Oversize? Planning Internet Access Network in a Demand Growth Scenario 2020-08-13 .txt text/plain 5980 318 52 Considering this, the objective of this research is to define the most advantageous strategy of expansion planning to attend a 5 years forecasted Internet demand, considering: (1) the possibility of utilizing a Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network technology; (2) the application of the minimal Steiner tree and Dijkstra algorithms in planning procedures; (3) the influence of economic and technological factors on the demand forecast; (4) the aggressive, moderate, and conservative scenarios in decision-making. The most advantageous cable network planning strategy was defined from three sets of procedures: estimating the Megabits per second (Mbps) in Brazil, estimating investments in kilometers (Km) of cables, and analyzing the market investments ratio or Mbps/Km. The procedure one "estimating the Megabits per second (Mbps) in Brazil" includes the following steps: I) Internet demand forecasting (Mbps per person), executed on Ninna-PCA and Microsoft Excel Software; II) geoprocessing of the characteristics of the city under analysis; III) creation of conservative, moderate, and aggressive decision scenarios; and IV) estimation of the Internet demand [57] . ./cache/cord-030423-0fjlz3lf.txt ./txt/cord-030423-0fjlz3lf.txt