A room renovation is the best moment to change a hotel's cabling. FTTR (Fiber to the Room) runs one fiber into each room, where an end unit delivers IPTV, Wi-Fi and LAN instead of separate coax, LAN and access-point cabling.
| Topic | Separate systems | Single-fiber FTTR |
|---|---|---|
| Cables per room | Several | One fiber |
| Floor equipment | Switches and UPS per floor | Passive splitters |
| Riser space | Crowded | Spare capacity |
| Management | Separate systems | One network |
| Future speed upgrades | May need new LAN cabling | Replace end units only |
Actual savings depend on the building; compare both options on the hotel's drawings, including annual maintenance.
Power for in-room units, redundancy for the OLT and trunk fibers, VLAN separation and QoS, IGMP multicast for TV, separate PoE switches where needed, headend conversion of terrestrial or satellite channels to IPTV, optical budget and split ratio.
