Reliability Performance Analysis vs. Deployment Cost of Fiber Access Networks

In this paper the availability and deployment cost analysis of different fiber access networks is presented. We consider both standard and novel architectures for two deployment scenarios, namely in dense and sparse populated areas referred to as collective and dispersive case respectively. In order to demonstrate the cost efficiency of different access network architectures we introduce a cost-reliability measure CRM parameter. For our calculations we assumed the typical values for component reliability and cost. Furthermore, we assume a decrease of the cost by 5% per year (4% for fiber). Our results reveal that the decrease of component cost does not make any significant difference because burying fiber is the dominating part of the network deployment cost and it does not decrease over the years.