Telecommunications power architectures: distributed or centralized

Abstract

Various plausible power architectures used in CO (central offices) and EEE (electronic equipment enclosures) are discussed. The attendant reliability advantages of distributed architectures are discussed at length. A cursory look into some major economic issues indicates the feasibility of such architectures and reveals a cost savings of about $36375 for architectures that are built using distributed topologies. It is noted that while such an architecture does not enjoy the years of trouble-free service and field experience that bulk architectures enjoy, today's bulk architectures lack the flexibility and the cost effectiveness that future telecommunications networks will demand, and that a distributed architecture can fill these voids.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>