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

  • abbreviation capital expenditure

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Examples

  • Plus, the annual subscription model is considered an OPEX rather than a CAPEX, which is good news for any CFO or Procurement Manager trying to minimise corporate assets.

    Latest stories 2009

  • A versatile gateway, once deployed, allows the operators to deploy multiple services without having to invest incremental CAPEX, meaning they can add additional revenue streams by leveraging existing hardware.

    E-Commerce Times Jayant Dasari 2010

  • A versatile gateway, once deployed, allows the operators to deploy multiple services without having to invest incremental CAPEX, meaning they can add additional revenue streams by leveraging existing hardware.

    E-Commerce Times Jayant Dasari 2010

  • However, operators are interested in HSPA+ for CPC and 64QAM but are very sensitive in the CAPEX issue.

    MWC: HSPA Is Stealing LTE’s Thunder 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

  • Upfront CAPEX savings by Twilio trickle down to users in the form of an inexpensive per-call pricing model.

    Why Amazon Will Make or Break Twilio 2009

  • Solid-state disks will help us regain the balance between storage and compute, so CAPEX per IOPS may well decrease substantially.

    The Solid-State Future 2009

  • It requires a “flatter” core and MIMO, both of which are hardware upgrades and require significant CAPEX.

    MWC: HSPA Is Stealing LTE’s Thunder 2009

  • While it may appear that the transition from HDDs to SSDs (also popularly known as flash memory) will mean higher CAPEX on a cost-per-unit-of-storage basis, that may be misleading.

    The Solid-State Future 2009

  • From a capital expense (CAPEX) perspective (specifically the cost of acquiring a unit of storage), disk was more expensive than tape when HDDs started the last storage media disruption.

    The Solid-State Future 2009

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  • CAPital EXpenditure.  capex

    April 4, 2015