Battery reserve sizing for fibre-in-the-loop equipment based on AC outage data

Author

Hawkins, Barry ; MacKinnon, Peter ; Muirhead, Lan ; Robbins, Tim

Author_Institution

Telstra Res. Lab., Clayton, SA, Australia

fYear

1994

fDate

30 Oct-3 Nov 1994

Firstpage

101

Lastpage

107

Abstract

Telstra Corporation is currently deploying fibre-in-the-loop (FITL) facilities in Australia for pay-TV, and the potential future requirements of video-on-demand and multimedia services. FITL equipment located at the curb or customer´s premises is expected to be powered from a local AC line connection, and hence it will be subject to AC outages. This paper discusses the use of typical metropolitan outage data recorded by Australian electricity supply utilities to assist in the optimum design of curb located FITL equipment. A FITL powering availability model is used to determine the power outage contribution to unavailability for a given battery reserve time

Keywords

distribution networks; electrical faults; electricity supply industry; interactive television; multimedia communication; optical fibre subscriber loops; power system reliability; secondary cells; telecommunication power supplies; uninterruptible power supplies; AC line connection; AC outage data; Australia; FITL; UPS; battery reserve sizing; electricity supply utilities; fibre-in-the-loop equipment; metropolitan outage data; multimedia services; pay-TV; power supply; powering availability model; video-on-demand; Australia; Availability; Batteries; Circuit faults; Data analysis; Databases; Laboratories; Optical fiber devices; Power system modeling; Power system reliability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications Energy Conference, 1994. INTELEC '94., 16th International

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2034-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INTLEC.1994.396604

Filename

396604