A techno-economic network planning tool for PON deployment including protection strategies

We developed a techno-economic network planning tool for deployment of PON networks in large cities involving hundreds of thousands of end-users. The tool use techno-economic data and street-aware algorithms to estimate the global cost of the network. In the present new work, we extend the application scenario of our planning tool to estimate the increase of cost when different types of protection strategies are introduced in PON networks.