What does coffee, bagels and your metro card have to do with the Gigabit Passive Optical network (GPON)? 
Oh,
Everything and then some.
What’s the ‘then some?’
Convenience.
Do you remember the last time your were inconvenienced?
How did you feel?
Recently, a media sales representative invited me to visit her office under false pretense.
You probably hate her already.
Here is more reason to hate her.
It was eight degrees.
And the wind chill?
About 25 below zero.
Go ahead, you have my permission to love to hate her.
She enticed me with the idea that her organization would like to feature our company in a promotional segment on the radio to help small businesses for Women’s History Month. She said that she had recently read an article about us in Crain’s magazine. And, that it had given her some ideas of how she could use the same premise in her project.
I was happy to help. Happy to promote women-owned businesses. Happy to get more publicity for our company.
Quid pro quo.
I know, get on on with GPON already.
Just a second. I am coming.
The lie quickly unfolded when I sat down to listen to her proposal to ‘help’ poor disadvantaged women owned businesses. She wanted me to pay $1500 minimum per month for a social media campaign.
“Fifteen hundred was the minimum for months of uncertainty,” I quipped.
‘No, there are no guarantees, she admitted, but your business would be more publicized. It’s however you’d like it. I’d customize a package for you.’
I wanted to customize her face with the palm of my hand.
So GPON.
Santa Fe Public Schools recently deployed the fiber network to seven new schools, according to IT Business Net- Information For Enterprise Professionals.
This deployment brings the number of schools that benefit from GPON or PON technology to eight.
Why GPON?
From their mouth to your ears:
Tellabs Optical LAN makes all things – voice/VoIP, data, video, Wi-Fi, security, and other services – work in a single fiber and centralize all network management functions. With all these things working together, teachers are also given the flexibility to modify the classroom.
It’s the Coffe, Bagels, Metrocard concept in action.
On an 8 degree day, a Bodega selling coffee was redemptive.
Being able to buy a bagel and a metro card at the same time?
Convenient.
GPON spells convenience on multiple levels.
Not only do students and teachers benefit from the Optical LAN, the administrators also benefit from the savings.
The fiber-based Optical LAN is $60,000 less than the traditional copper-bases solution.
Can you imagine these same benefits for your network?
Contact us for your dose of the GPON convenience.
It’s a free analysis of your network.
Source:
Santa Fe Public Schools Extends Optical LAN to Seven New Schools.
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