Techno-economic study of a modeled active Ethernet FTTB deployment

FTTB is recognized as the choice for true broadband access and major deployments of the technology begin to approach. Among various architectures and technologies of FTTB, home run active Ethernet FTTB is an interesting technology. An important design issue related to FTTB deployments is the high level of CAPEX. In order to justify the FTTB deployments, service providers and network planners require a tool to assist them in selecting an optimized deployment strategy and network design. Lack of modeling tools to perform high level FTTB network planning is the main motivation behind this work. A configurable and customizable techno-economic model, which assist network planners and decision makers to have a high-level insight of Ethernet FTTB deployment is presented in this paper. The model captures both the technical and economical aspects of the Ethernet FTTB networks and provides key business performance indicators. The results of a case study for an Ethernet FTTB deployment in Athens (Greece) are presented.

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