Impact of Protection on the Cost of Ethernet Services on Different Optical Network Platforms

Network operators are continuously evaluating the Capital Expenditures (CapEx) and the Operational Expenditures (OpEx) to take important decisions such as the technologies that will be used, services that will be offered, prices of the services to be offered, etc. Our study focuses on the evaluation of the impact that protection has on the cost of a service during all its lifecycle. One could think that protected services may cost twice than the unprotected services but in this study we present some results on the cost comparison of different protection schemes on different optical platforms.