FutureFLEX® Cost Savings

FutureFLEX significantly reduces labor as a prime cost component, generally saving you at least 90% of the labor costs associated with the fiber installation of a conventional fiber optic cabling system...yielding you continuously positive ROI

Once the tube cable pathway is installed, it typically takes only 20 to 30 minutes to blow 3,000 feet of fiber, taking only two installers blowing at speeds of 100 to 150 feet per minute.  The time and labor savings is overwhelming when you consider that  pulling 3,000 feet of conventional fiber optic cable takes, on average, a full 8 hour day using 4 skilled installers

Network moves, adds, changes, and reconfigurations can be achieved with FutureFLEX in a matter of minutes or hours rather than days, weeks, or months as is typical with a conventional infrastructure.  

However, the cost savings with FutureFLEX just doesn’t stop there. Since the FutureFLEX architecture is point-to-point with a continuous fiber run, it eliminates the need to splice at transition or branching points.  Instead, using simple push-fit connectors within tube distribution units (TDUs), installers can quickly and easily route or reroute fiber to new locations in a matter of minutes.  Eliminating splicing points (except at final termination locations) reduces the possibility of fiber damage and attenuation, resulting in greater network reliability without additional labor costs.

There is no need to buy additional dark fiber to future proof your network.  Instead, you install the exact fiber counts you need, when and where you need it..  You don't need to have a lot of excess capacity sitting dark for years — and that dark fiber type may not be what your network demands when the time comes to utilize it.  Inherently, FutureFLEX eliminates the financial risk of having installed too much fiber, which results in wasted dollars and the risk of having installed too few fibers, which leads to expensive retrenching and installation costs.  Also, with FutureFLEX you install the "right" fiber type the first time, whether your immediate needs require multimode, single-mode, or 10 Gigabit 50-micron fiber.  As your day-to-day needs change, simply blow out the old fiber and quickly install new fiber in a matter of minutes.  You can reuse the old fiber in another application…allowing you to preserve your initial fiber investment.

Furthermore, FutureFLEX's point-to-point infrastructure greatly minimizes network downtime at your operation or facility, which for manufacturing entities can equate to saving millions of dollars per year.

Since the FutureFLEX infrastructure offers fiber on demand, it eliminates the time and headaches of forecasting, planning, and budgeting the future requirements of your network.  Once the tube cable pathway is in place, blowing any type of fiber is quick and easy, eliminating the need for construction permits and obstruction to your site.  Instead, FutureFLEX facilitates quick project turnaround times and reduces network downtime…all of which saves you valuable time that you can now invest in other aspects of your job —making you and your department increasingly more productive and cost effective.