GPON rescues hospital: Take notes.

“GPON to the rescue!”

This is how the headlines should have read in lieu of the $400,000 savings for one area hospital.

You deserve to know their name. You may even want to speak with the Chief Technology Officer there.

This could be arranged.

It would be a crime to keep the Gigabit Passive Optical LAN (GPON) a secret.

So I am telling how it helped Arch Care.

Then again, I don’t have to.

Here is the case study.

Eat your heart out.

ArchCare Deploys Motorola’s Passive Optical LAN Solution.
Deerfield Beach, FL – April 11, 2012: AMT (Advanced Media Technologies) announced today that ArchCare has installed Gigabit

Passive Optical Network (GPON) Solution at its Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center (TCC) extended care facility in New York City.

The product is being utilized to distribute Ethernet to 2300 ports throughout a three-building facility over a fiber optic infrastructure.
Implementation of a new Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system on this campus location required the complete rebuild of the existing Local Area Network including all new structured cabling as well as installation of a new Wireless LAN for mobility applications.

The fact that TCC is an older facility posed increased challenges for cabling, which included limited access to raceways, minimized routing options, reduced available space, and strict environmental cleanliness requirements.

In this regard, GPON proved especially beneficial due to its reduced space requirements and increased lifespan over conventional copper.

Additionally, this TCC location contains ArchCare’s main data center, which hosts mission-critical applications for eight ArchCare locations throughout the greater New York City area.

Therefore, maintaining systems operability 24×7 during the LAN migration was a critical project requirement.

The project team was comprised of ArchCare IT, Peleton, and its cabling partners (GNI and Bayview Communications).

The team worked closely to successfully implement the new LAN environment while maintaining a 24×7 operational status.

The key benefits delivered with this GPON implementation include:

• Reduced capital investment requirement by 38%

• Increased number of data ports by 400%

• Reduced power requirements by 20%

• Implemented new WLAN network to support EMR mobility requirements

• Improved LAN performance, reliability and manageability

• Reclaimed existing IDF space for other purposes

• Increased life expectancy of the infrastructure.
“We approached this LAN technology upgrade decision understanding we would be the first US health care facility to implement GPON technology

However, the significant capital investment savings, extensive carrier deployment with Verizon FIOS, and proven track records of technology providers such as Motorola and Peleton outweighed any early adopter risk factor.

We are very pleased with the LAN migration and final result,” said Mitze Amoroso, VP Information Systems and CIO for ArchCare.”

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