DocumentCode :
2669368
Title :
Investigating the economic feasibility of Bandwidth-on-Demand services for the European research networks
Author :
Hanemann, Andreas ; Hausheer, David ; Reiche, P. ; Stiller, Burkhard ; Van Daalen, Paul
Author_Institution :
German Res. Network (DFN), Berlin, Germany
fYear :
2010
fDate :
19-23 April 2010
Firstpage :
201
Lastpage :
204
Abstract :
In the recent years, several technical solutions have been developed that allow Bandwidth-on-Demand services to be offered by service providers. In the context of the European academic networks, the technical feasibility of such services has been demonstrated on several occasions. The move from a research activity to a production service presents further requirements in addition to the overcoming of technical challenges. Most notably, apart from organization of day-to-day operations, financial issues have to be solved. These relate to sharing the costs of a service that is delivered jointly by independent organizations. The main cost factors are operations staff as well as network resources that are purchased for on-demand use. Moreover, the financial issues also include pricing models for use of the service use as well as the distribution of the revenues among the participating organizations. The present paper considers this fundamental BoD scenario together with key challenges in detail, before discussing the general approach for specifying a cost/pricing model.
Keywords :
IP networks; bandwidth allocation; economics; telecommunication services; European research networks; bandwidth-on-demand services; cost factors; cost-pricing model; economic feasibility; pricing models; production service; Board of Directors; Context-aware services; Costs; Economic forecasting; Ethernet networks; Internet; Jitter; Pricing; Production; Protocols;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Network Operations and Management Symposium Workshops (NOMS Wksps), 2010 IEEE/IFIP
Conference_Location :
Osaka
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6037-3
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/NOMSW.2010.5486575
Filename :
5486575
Link To Document :
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