The Passive Optical LAN aka (POL) or GPON costs less, has unlimited bandwidth, and hugs our environment. 
I could add much more to POLs merit list. Instead, I invite you to make your own list of headaches that you’d like to trade in from using the traditional Ethernet LAN.
Ho! Ho!
And, POL is secure.
You name the industry, and POL comes out swinging. Here are a few examples: Hospitality, Universities, and the Federal Government.
This list goes on.
The focus here is healthcare.
For hospitals, here is how the Passive Optical LAN shines:
The applicable industry standard suggests that 45 percent of rooms within a healthcare facility have two to six Gigabit ports; 25 percent have six to 12 ports’ and 30 percent have 14 or more ports.
A 100 room healthcare facility would need a minimum of 1050 Gigabit ports. If traditional copper-based LAN is selected, the design team would require 1050 copper cables. However, a fiber-based Passive Optical LAN requires only nine single-mode (SMF) fiber optic cables to serve that same number of Gigabit ports.
Cha-ching! Savings.
Fiber optic occupies 90% less space yet has four times greater GbE density and 300 times the reach. This translates to a smaller footprint which means more space for critical care beds.
Again, it is my honor to translate.
More space for more beds increases revenues to the facility and provides greater access to people–sick people– Health care’s core business.
Win, win. I love win/win scenarios.
I bet you do too.
I’m excited! May I go on?
And, POL converges. It wraps up all this goodness in a bow and delivers.
Here is how.
It takes critical care services, patient entertainment and all wireless traffic onto one fiber network and segments the end user experience.
Translation?
Flawless service, military-grate security, low-latency transmission and strict Quality of Service (QoS).
Oops,
I’ve been a tad naughty, just a tad.
I forgot to mention that Fiber optic cable has no bandwidth ceiling and no known obsolescence horizon.
Translation?
Always,
‘En vogue.’
Happy Holidays!
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