Open Access Network

Open Access Network ( OAN ) refers to a horizontal telecommunications network architecture and a business model that, that separates the use of a network by provisioning from building and operating the network.

Internet providers are competing to hire in a OAN network bandwidth only currently required. The Infrastructure installer can by the parallel marketing of Recource utilize this better, especially in rural areas - with thin population density - improves this multiple marketing, the basic condition for economic development network.

The OAN principle is often applied to wireless networks, and is now a possible business model for municipal fiber networks.