Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation operating expenditure
  • abbreviation operating expense

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  • initialism business, finance OPerating EXpense or OPeratingEXpenditure; A financial term for the continuing costs of a business, in contrast to capital expenditure.
  • initialism OPerational EXecutive
  • initialism The 1959 United Nations programme to provide Operational and Executive staff as part of aid to certain countries

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Examples

  • New Data Centers For green-field deployments, the recommended choice is to go in for an FCoE SAN Enables network convergence with 10G as backbone Long term OPEX savings due to FCoE Optical connectivity with multimode OM3 fiber recommended Compatible with 100G, up to a distance of 100m 14

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • As the only services gateways to deliver unmatched price / performance network security and enable both low CAPEX and low long-term OPEX investments, the SRX3400 and SRX3600 can significantly reduce network complexity and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) by up to

    Wireless Design Asia - Latest Updates 2009

  • OPEX will also decrease as SSDs replace hard disks.

    The Solid-State Future 2009

  • Tape was also arguably cheaper from an operating expense (OPEX) perspective (specifically the maintenance cost including power, space, and labor).

    The Solid-State Future 2009

  • Aspinall claims that USD can save service providers big money overall vs. Data Center 2.0 approaches - – up to 35 percent OPEX and 20 percent CAPEX – - and even more on the delivery of specific services.

    Cisco Helps Carriers Build a Cloud 2009

  • Even after amortizing all marketing costs (which I did along with all OPEX in my quick and dirty analysis) the marginal impact to marginal costs are, well, marginal.

    Microeconomics of the Consumer Web 2009

  • First, by being able to place nearly all video production, distribution and monetization processes under an OPEX model rather than CAPEX model, cloud computing pretty much negates the question of who can be a broadcast or HD-quality video network.

    Media and Marketing���s Cloudy Future - John du Pre Gauntt - MedaBizBloggers 2009

  • First, by being able to place nearly all video production, distribution and monetization processes under an OPEX model rather than CAPEX model, cloud computing pretty much negates the question of who can be a broadcast or HD-quality video network.

    Media and Marketing���s Cloudy Future - John du Pre Gauntt - MedaBizBloggers 2009

  • The value proposition is thus… 1. Cost-effectively extend Web services to their mobile customers and employees 2. Supports contextual Web services across any network and device 3. Reduces time to market a. 98% of solution uses existing infrastructure, 2% is new 4. Delivers increased CAPEX/OPEX efficiencies a.

    Challenges faced by the Operators and Mobile Developer Community by Umar Akram Helen Keegan 2007

  • Bluetooth OPEX file transfer, or you know that annoying keypad.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Nokia takes a “me too!!” stance on phones. 2007

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