In a world of radically evolving technology, meeting end-user demands and your business goals can be challenging. While every situation is unique, taking these considerations into account while you’re planning can help you confidently and cost-effectively build or evolve your existing network for the future. Take a few minutes to browse the seven most critical considerations when it comes to your network design. Feel free to complete the form below if you would like more information on how Corning can solve your network challenges.
Documentation
Documentation
Be sure to take the time tomap outstrands forthe entire network. Without a complete map during installation or scheduled maintenance, fiber assets allocated with live traffic could be disrupted. This could increase labor costs by requiring restoration of active customers and equipment. It could also lead to credits, lost revenue for business customers, and damage to your customer relationships.
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Labor
Labor
50 percent of the costof building out a network is labor. Consider what combination of skill levels your workforce will need and how that will affect the materials you’ll need along with total worker hours.
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OpEx
OpEx
Details add up.Take everything into account when calculating expenditures, including truck rolls, maintenance, overtime, customer credits, dispatching efficiency, fleet management, and tools.
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(Starting at section 2.1.3 is great information on fiber and reduction of Opex and Capex.)
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Experience
Experience
Assess the effectoutagescould have on your customers’ experience and your budget. Consider installations, repeat trouble calls, and your mean time to repair (MTTR). Outages can also impact new customer activations and cause reschedules, revenue loss, customer dissatisfaction, and workforce backlog.
Protocol
Protocol
Decide if you’ll be following ahybrid or all-fiberapproach, RFoG or EPON protocol, and the impact that will have on your long-term maintenance and expansion plans.
Long View
Long View
What you do today affects what you can and can’t do tomorrow.Plan to scale,so you’ll have enough fiber for the future.
Delivery
Delivery
这个行业是陈ging from TV to streaming and on demand. Headends are becoming more like data centers, delivering data instead of video. To successfully transition to thisnew service model, you’ll need to develop even more detailed plans than in the past to stay on track.
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