{"id":7501,"date":"2022-10-10T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T11:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sifinetworks.com\/corporate\/?p=7501"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:54:11","slug":"why-fiber-is-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sifinetworks.com\/corporate\/why-fiber-is-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Fiber is King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study by CTC Technology &amp; Energy has analyzed engineering of fixed-wireless technologies, comparing them to fiber to the premises networks, an insightful look into how a fiber network is the most sustainable, efficient and cost-effective solution.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the highlights from the report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CAPACITY<\/strong> &#8211; Fiber\u2019s existing and potential bandwidth is thousands of times higher than wireless, and fixed-wireless networks have capacity limitations that sharply limit the number of users on a network. Fixed-wireless technologies will continue to improve but will not match the performance of fiber-optic networks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>CONNECTION<\/strong> &#8211; A fiber network can connect every household in a service area but fixed-wireless network need a line-of-sight. Obstructions such as buildings therefore have an adverse effect on fixed-wireless networks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SCALABILITY<\/strong> \u2013 Fixed-wireless is only capable of supporting a given amount of network capacity. To increase this capacity is a critical challenge to fixed-wireless deployments, both technically and financially, whereas fiber is easily scalable.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SUSTAINABILITY<\/strong> &#8211; Fiber is sustainable, scalable, and renewable. It offers greater capacity, predictable performance, lower maintenance costs, and a longer technological lifetime than fixed-wireless technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>COST<\/strong> \u2013 With fiber, you are investing now for the future. Initial capital costs are higher for fiber than for fixed wireless network deployments; most of the capital cost for fiber relates to construction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ongoing operational costs for fixed wireless are also higher than for fiber\u2014due largely to the need to regularly replace fixed wireless equipment. For a fixed wireless network, 40 to 80 percent of the capital investment needs to be replaced every five years. Only 1 to 10 percent of the capital cost of a fiber network is replaced every 10 years. (Assuming a 50-year lifetime of fiber plant).<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full report here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benton.org\/publications\/FixedWireless\"><em>Fixed Wireless Technologies and Their Suitability for Broadband Delivery<\/em><\/a>,.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study by CTC Technology &amp; Energy has analyzed engineering of fixed-wireless technologies, comparing them to fiber to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Fiber is King | SiFi Networks<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Why fiber is king is examined in a recent study by CTC Technology &amp; Energy who analyzed engineering of fixed-wireless technologies.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sifinetworks.com\/corporate\/why-fiber-is-king\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Fiber is King | SiFi Networks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Why fiber is king is examined in a recent study by CTC Technology &amp; Energy who analyzed engineering of fixed-wireless technologies.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sifinetworks.com\/corporate\/why-fiber-is-king\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SiFi Networks - 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