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Network planning is essential to design real broadband integrated services
digital networks (B-ISDN). This paper presents an operations research appli
cation to the design of an optic fibre network for the Andalusian region. T
he economical appraisal is the main consideration in order to take the appr
opriate decisions: hub location, region sizes and selection of the urban no
des that will receive telecommunication contents. A decision support system
with a graphic interface that allows interactive analysis of different sce
narios is presented. The system contains a set of mathematical programming
models and it has the capability to dynamically construct and solve instanc
es of those models. In addition, it provides data preparation and reports.
The system is an integrated, user-friendly and powerful tool to make planni
ng studies by firms developing cable network systems in the telecommunicati
ons market.