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2.2.5 Location Central offices

The third, crucial consideration for business planning, after service demand and resource capacity, is the number of discrete locations where those resources must be deployed in order to provide capacity to customers (wherever they actually are).

The location element in STEM is just a number (or time series) which captures the scope of this characteristic, geographical diversity just as a number of sites. It is not a visual construct and does not ‘pin resources to a map’. The cost of these individual resources is assumed to be the same, wherever they are located; from a financial perspective, what matters is their number, not their specific location.

 

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