GPON / Passive Optical LAN Cabling is Now an Approved Cabling Standard for All United States Department of Defense (DoD) Facilities
The Marines, Army, Air Force, Navy and all other DoD entities together represent the largest group of building owners in North America.
Department of Defense CTO’s and CIO’s had two primary requirement’s and they were to look at ways reduce their CapEx and OpEx costs, while not impacting DoD’s technical performance.
In June 2016, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) updated its Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) documents to include GPON / Passive Optical LAN deployment guidelines for new construction and renovation requirements.
GPON update provided by Tellabs
These guidelines can be used for planning, design, construction, sustainability, restoration and modernization of telecom infrastructure.
Specifically, the United States Marine Corps included these updates into the UFC; however, any of the DoD services may utilize these new unified guidelines.
This means that a single source of requirements is now available for all DoD planners, engineers and installers for the installation of GPON / Passive Optical LAN.
With fiber-based GPON / Passive Optical LAN, the DoD can fulfill the following 3 strategic initiatives for both new construction and renovation projects:
- Positive impact on telecom network and facilities modernization
- Contributions to green sustainability initiatives, like Green Globe and LEEDs (similar to Australia’s Green Council of Australia)
- Upgrading antiquated copper-based network to fiber-based networks both LAN and WAN
In addition to those high profile initiatives listed above, there are still more benefits that GPON / Passive Optical LAN delivers to the United States Department of Defense:
- POL provides the most efficient use of government monetary funds and staff resources
- Eliminates telecom rooms and lowers energy usage due to less UPS, A/C and ventilation
- Converges voice, video and data over a single fiber network, reduces cables and saves space
- Industry leading security and protection, far better than legacy copper-based LANs
- Simplify and secure the network with fewer devices to provision, monitor, and secure
This is a significant milestone for the GPON / Passive Optical LAN industry, and for Tellabs,
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