COST ESTIMATION OF PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK (PON) FOR SUB OPTIMAL DEPLOYMENT WITH APPLICATION OF PATH MINIMIZATION TECHNIQUE AND WAVELENGTH ALLOCATION BASED OF BIT ERROR RATE (BER) PERFORMANCE

A basic criterion for PON network planning is to design fiber path. This criterion may be satisfied with some practical restrictions such as length of fiber paths, split ratios, splitter positions, the presence of obstacles on the deployment path etc. After finalizing any possible path, the BER performance of the finalized path also needs to be verified. Here we propose the algorithm that not only reduces deployment costs of PON system by maintaining the strategy of lowering distance limits, avoiding obstacles in the route but also have facility to evaluate BER performance and calculate approximate deployment costs of the path