Analytics Hierarchy Process for Decision-making in Network Infrastructure Replacement

Among all methodologies to support multi-criteria decision making, the Analytics Hierarchy Process is widely used in the most diverse situations. Different authors treat it as one of the best alternatives when there is a need to introduce subjective criteria within the decision-making process, in addition to having adaptability to situations with a high number of alternatives using ratings. In this work, a comparison was made between the ranking results of 30 areas for replacing the network infrastructure with fiber optic networks through numerical criteria and reordering by decision makers and through a model using AHP with ratings. As a result, a similar final ranking can be seen, which enables the use of AHP as a tool to improve the decision-making process for this situation.