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Optical Fiber Telecommunications VB, 5th Edition
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Optical Fiber Telecommunications VB, 5th Edition

by Ivan Kaminow, Tingye Li, Alan E. Willner
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
33h 42m
English
Academic Press
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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 ...
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ISBN: 9780123741721