The past five years have seen an enormous investment in long haul fiber capacity by the telecommunications industry. Looking forward, the main areas of future fiber investment will be in metro rings and, increasingly, in FTTX applications to connect both household and enterprise customers to broadband services. Installation of this “last mile” of fiber has been slow due to the high cost of this installation per customer served and the corresponding uncertainty of securing any increased revenue from each customer. A novel approach to this challenge is the concept of “fiber on demand”. This approach involves the pre-installation of a multi-microduct system and then the subsequent, incremental installation of fiber based on individual customer demand.|The past five years have seen an enormous investment in long haul fiber capacity by the telecommunications industry. Looking forward, the main areas of future fiber investment will be in metro rings and, increasingly, in FTTX applications to connect both household and enterprise customers to broadband services. Installation of this “last mile” of fiber has been slow due to the high cost of this installation per customer served and the corresponding uncertainty of securing any increased revenue from each customer. A novel approach to this challenge is the concept of “fiber on demand”. This approach involves the pre-installation of a multi-microduct system and then the subsequent, incremental installation of fiber based on individual customer demand.

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