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asic access and best-effort delivery,<br />

overview of, 155–157. See also access<br />

providers<br />

basic Internet access, use of, 50–51<br />

best practices<br />

for central offices, 69<br />

for safeguarding network elements from<br />

hijacking and malicious code, 192<br />

best-effort delivery and basic access,<br />

overview of, 155–157<br />

BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) over MPLS,<br />

relationship to VPN technology, 161<br />

billing, managing with OSS, 181–182<br />

BLECs (building local exchanges), failure<br />

of, 125<br />

bridge connections, using, 77<br />

broadband fixed wireless<br />

circuit-based access technologies, 14–15<br />

DSL, 16–18<br />

frame relay, 15–16<br />

hybrid fiber coax, 18–20<br />

wireless broadband, 20–23<br />

broadband wireless. See wireless broadband<br />

budgets, estimating, 96–99. See also costs<br />

business strategy, considering for internal<br />

networks, 126<br />

■C<br />

cable aggregation nodes, capacity of, 25–26<br />

cable installations, costs of, 126<br />

cable networks, resemblance to wireless<br />

broadband video networks, 56<br />

cable services<br />

characterizing, 19<br />

evolution of, 19<br />

versus wireless broadband, 21<br />

cabling procedures, importance in<br />

installation, 123<br />

CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law<br />

Enforcement Act), significance of,<br />

187, 193–194<br />

■INDEX<br />

capital and operating budgets, estimating,<br />

96–99. See also costs<br />

carrier grade versus enterprise equipment, 63<br />

carrier wave, definition of, 116<br />

carrier’s carrier service model, overview of,<br />

61–62<br />

CAVU-eXpedient provider, significance of, 40<br />

CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access),<br />

relationship to subscriber density, 28<br />

cell mapping, strategies for, 105–107<br />

cell planning, relationship to adaptive<br />

modulation, 122<br />

cell splitting, relationship to frequency reuse,<br />

111–112<br />

cells. See also macrocells; microcells<br />

channel assignments between, 104–105<br />

functionality in point-to-multipoint<br />

networks, 102–104<br />

versus sectors, 109–110<br />

cellular reuse, application of, 103–104<br />

central exchange, relationship to T1 and<br />

SONET, 59<br />

central offices<br />

application-specific equipment for,<br />

141–145<br />

ATM and frame relay-switching<br />

equipment in, 140–141<br />

backhaul considerations related to, 72–79<br />

best practices for, 69<br />

and class 5 switches, 149<br />

establishing access points for, 71–72<br />

establishing sites for, 65–66<br />

and location-based services, 145<br />

mobile voice equipment in, 140<br />

mounting equipment in, 69<br />

obtaining affordable space for, 66<br />

obtaining facilities for, 70–71<br />

physical requirements for, 66–69<br />

placing Ethernet switches in, 135–137<br />

primary function of, 141<br />

197

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