“Wallace came to us from The George Washington University, where he had supported an earlier version of GPON with success. The more we looked at GPON and talked with Wallace about space and cabling redevelopment, not to mention future bandwidth requirements, the more GPON made sense for our projects.”
“We’ve got old copper wires that are starting to fail; moving forward, we’re going to remove 99 percent of our copper and replace it with fiber. Part of the selling point of fiber is we put it into the walls once and we don’t ever have to go back in and replace it. Replacing copper is simply too cost prohibitive.”