Be ready for the future increases to Internet speeds offered by a Retail Service Provider, including the new Enterprise Gigabit services now being offered by the nbn.
Having your desks serviced by fibre will reduce installation, maintenance, electrical and upgrade costs as well as air-conditioning and floor space requirements that are required by existing copper cable networks.
Enterprise businesses are looking for ways to improve energy efficiency and reduce capital and operating expenses. Technology Managers are looking for solutions that provide high bandwidth while also increasing the security and reliability of their networks.
To meet these requirements, enterprises are turning to Gigabit Passive Optical Networks (GPON) based Passive Optical LANs. Passive Optical LANs provide enormous value to enterprises allowing them to continue how they do business, as the existing services provided by their LAN remain.
Plus, businesses deploying Passive Optical Network LANs will experience long-term savings by future-proofing their network infrastructure while realising all of the benefits of converging existing and new networked services, including voice, video, wireless access, security, surveillance, building environmental controls and building automation.
This paper explains how Passive Optical Network LANs work and how they can benefit your organisation.
The following will also outline why enterprises are looking to deploy a Passive Optical Network LAN solution that is environmentally responsible and solves the evolving network challenges while significantly cutting CapEx and OpEx, energy and space requirements.
A Passive Optical LAN is a Layer-3 transport medium, the physical layer is built using Passive Optical Network (PON) technology, that provides converged video, data, wireless access and voice services at gigabit speeds over a single fibre to the user’s location.
When comparing the configurations of a traditional copper-based active Ethernet LANs and a Passive Optical LAN architecture it always helps to illustrate the similarities between the two different technologies.