
10.6 OPERATIONAL SAVINGS
Given that FTTx deployments consume so muc h capital, a carrier is bound to ask:
“Why would it benefit my company to take the risk to offer such services?” Of
course, the answer is twofold: there are new service-related revenues to reap, and
there are also operational cost savings associated with fiber-based systems. Taking
a lesson from long-haul and metro transport systems, carriers have learned that
fiber systems have fewer failures, higher availability, are more reliable [32], and
have more capacity than copper-based systems. So FTTx solutions have a strong
historical track-record on which to rel y for both good reliabili ...