Harbison Aged Care Facility – Burradoo, GPON Case Study.

Harbison, Kela Building Group, Webb Consulting and Syno IT went to the market to look for a long-term telecommunications solution that would reduce their electrical costs, reduce real estate space and a cabling solution that was not going to become redundant like Category 5, 5e, and 6 cabling.

After much deliberation and research, they chose a GPON solution.

GPON is a telecommunications access technology that uses fiber-optic cabling to reach the user.

This fiber optic technology provides faster data transmission and reception through a single fiber with a point-to-multipoint architecture, which allows home optical fiber (FTTH), or a building (FTTB).

GPON supports many functions to meet customer needs such as longer transmission reach, higher bandwidth, reliability, and lower operating expense (OPEX) on services.

Companies are increasingly challenged in providing sustainable network solutions as corporate LANs are facing disruptive changes caused by the increasing usage of real-time, high-bandwidth applications such as video services, teleconference and a diverse range of cloud applications.

Furthermore, an increasing focus on corporate social and environmental responsibility has introduced further stringent requirements on enterprise network design.

Besides being a future-proof technology to support rapid increases in user data rate, enterprise networks have to be energy-efficient and highly secure while minimizing the capital and operational expenditures.

Current corporate LANs that are mainly based on copper Ethernet are unable to satisfy all the above requirements of future enterprise networking. In recent years, many companies have introduced GPON as an alternative LAN solution for corporate networks.

Compared to traditional LANs, GPON enables local area networking with higher bandwidth and security, lower latency, immunity to electromagnetic interference, is highly scalable with large coverage and lower energy consumption.