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The hidden cost of preventable outages across your remote sites.

Most IT and OT operations teams know outages are costly. Few know how much of that cost is avoidable. This calculator quantifies your annual exposure in two minutes, using published industry data from the FCC, ITU, IEEE, and the Uptime Institute.

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Preventable outage rate
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Adjust the four inputs to match your environment. Results update in real time. Defaults reflect published industry benchmarks for remote infrastructure operations.

Your Environment
Number of remote sites 50
5250500
Unmanned or remote-monitored locations under your responsibility.
Average outages per site per year 1.5
0.524
GSMA and Ericsson field studies report 1–2 major outages per typical remote site annually.
Estimated cost per outage $3,000
Select your infrastructure type:
Includes downtime, truck rolls, SLA exposure, and reputational cost. Industry midpoints per FCC NORS and Uptime Institute data.
Preventable with active monitoring 50%
30%50%65%
ITU-T L.1310 and ATIS NRSC put the preventable rate between 40–60%. Adjust to reflect your monitoring maturity.
Your Annual Exposure
$225,000
in preventable outage cost, per year
75
Outages per year, at current site count
38
Avoidable with active monitoring
That figure reflects only the directly avoidable share of outages at your current site count. It does not yet account for compliance exposure, SLA penalties, or the operational drag of reactive maintenance. All of those are quantified in the full report below.
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  • Full annual and 3-year exposure projection for your environment
  • Outage breakdown by category: power, environmental, generator, fire/intrusion, microwave
  • Regulatory and SLA compliance implications (FCC, NERC CIP, ISO 27001, NIST CSF 2.0)
  • Anonymized deployment summary: 300 sites, 1,200 truck rolls eliminated
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Where the numbers come from.

This calculator is built on published industry data, not vendor claims.

Every default in this tool (outage frequency, cost per incident, preventable percentage) is drawn from published telecommunications reliability research and federal reporting data. These are the same benchmarks used by Tier-1 carriers, federal regulators, and infrastructure auditors when modeling network reliability investments.

The 40–60% preventable outage rate reflects findings across ITU-T L.1310, the FCC's NORS reporting, ATIS Network Reliability Steering Committee best practices, and the Uptime Institute's 2024 annual outage analysis. Cost-per-outage ranges are drawn from FCC outage data, Ericsson's 2022 Network Availability white paper, and Omdia's carrier reliability research.

Primary sources referenced:
ITU-T L.1310: Energy efficiency and reliability metrics
FCC NORS: Communications outage reporting, 2018 to 2024
ATIS-0600015: Network Reliability Steering Committee best practices
IEEE Std 1366-2012: Electric power distribution reliability indices
Uptime Institute: Annual Outage Analysis 2023 to 2024
Ericsson: Network Availability White Paper, 2022
GSMA: Network Resilience Guidelines NG.127 v2.0