Key Projects
Blolite® blown optical fiber technology is suitable for nearly all local area network (LAN) applications and environments. Since it was developed by British Telecom during the 1980s, blown optical fiber technology has spread worldwide, throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Europe and the Pacific Rim. In the U.S., Blolite has been installed at sites from stand-alone and campus facilities to aircraft carriers the size of small cities.

Corporate
Frequent network moves, adds and changes (MAC) are the norm in today’s corporate environment as companies adapt their organizations to the ever changing business environment. Blolite networks allow companies to quickly, easily and economically change their network as needed to stay competitive, enabling the economical deployment of extra capacity where needed.

Significant advantages of Blolite for the Corporate Campus:

• Reliability – no splices in point-to-point links means lower attenuation, higher performance and increased system integrity.
• Adaptability – add new destinations, relocate routers and hubs, change fiber types and counts, reconfigure LANs, add new services and technologies, as needed.
  
• Quick Disaster Recovery – Blolite network backbone provides significant speed and cost advantages for recovery and repair in mission-critical events.

Education
Driven by the need to provide a competitive learning environment and the state-of-the-art communications network in a fiscally responsible manner, schools and universities are especially drawn to the extraordinary design flexibility and "pay as you grow" features of Blolite networks.

Significant advantages of Blolite for Schools and Universities:

• Long Term Investment – built-in adaptability and capacity makes a Blolite infrastructure the ideal partner for the rapidly changing technologies with open architectures.
• Design Control – the flexibility of the Blolite system allows for the ability to provide the highest technological value with the lowest possible risk, providing the ultimate in competitive advantage.
• Non-Disruptive – due to an existing infrastructure of Microduct tubing pathways, future changes require minimal disruption to the physical environment of the campus/building.

Medical
With departments inundated with data-intensive applications and high-resolution graphic images, health care facilities require diverse network architectures to meet the different levels of demand at various locations within the facility. When building cleanliness is at a premium, hospitals are attracted to the reduced workplace disruptions and quick installation times inherently associated with Blolite technology.

Significant advantages of Blolite for Health Care facilities:

• Ultimate in Flexibility – Blolite is the system of choice due to the highly reliable, extremely adaptable, technology-friendly infrastructure. State-of-the-art technology requiring high bandwidth is dependably supported no matter what network environment exists.
• Quick Disaster Recovery – a Blolite network backbone provides significant speed and cost advantages for recovery and repair in mission-critical environments.
• Transparent Upgrades – for installations where workplace interruptions need to be kept to a minimum during moves, adds, and upgrades, as well as economical.

Manufacturing
State-of-the-art manufacturing facilities require state-of-the-art fiber networks. Manufacturing environments may sometimes be harsh and the penalty for network outages due to damaged cable can be severe. In the case of damage, Blolite networks can be restored quicker, easier and at lower costs than conventional fiber networks — a big plus when time is money.

Significant advantages of Blolite for Manufacturing facilities:

• Efficient Moves, Adds, Changes and Upgrades – changes in the network system can be executed with minimal disruptions to the plant floor network, allowing for a seamless transition.
• Fast and Cost-Effective Restoration – as the industrial revolution continues to expand through advanced technology, Blolite minimizes downtime because of the its ability to recover and repair within a fraction of the time associated with conventional cabling.
• Future-Proof Technology – network expansions with the same superior system and integrity are an inherent feature of a Blolite infrastructure. Once the network of Microduct is in place any future adoption of new technology is readily embraced.

Military/Shipboard
The key developments in military shipboard fiber optic technology have been the digitization of command, control and communication systems over a common infrastructure. This convergence has enabled significant savings in space and weight as well as greatly improved system functionality and damage tolerance. Blown optical fiber technology (BOFT) has furthered these advances by adding opportunities for cost savings, easy upgradeability and design flexibility.

Significant advantages of Blolite for Military:

• M85045 Approved – Blolite is the first and only currently approved blown optical fiber technology (BOFT) by the military meeting critical crew safety requirements of flame retardancy, low smoke generation and low toxicity called out by the U.S. Navy.
• Land or Sea Installations – Blolite, using low pressure compressed air, simplifies the installation process for safe use in confined spaces found on shipboard applications.
• Quick terminations- Individual fiber blowing allows quick and easy termination of the fibers into the termination devices called out in the shipboard military standard, MIL-STD-2042B.

Installation samplings
Large Carriers (Nimitz Class)
Amphibious Assault Ships (Tarawa and Wasp Classes)
Guided Missile Destroyers (Arleigh Burke Class) General Dynamics/Bath Iron Works

Municipality
Municipalities are required to provide high levels of network services at a minimal expense. Blolite’s "pay as you grow" network design allows municipalities to install only the fiber they need today while reserving Microduct capacity to quickly and economically add fiber to their network in the future.

Significant advantages of Blolite for Municipalities:

• Future Growth – for installations where there is uncertainty about how the network performance requirements will grow in the future, impacting the budgetary decisions.
• Aging Infrastructures – for installations where tortuous pulling conditions would require extra splices with conventional cable or the preservation of the original architech.
• Minimal Disruptions – for installations where workplace interruptions must be kept to a minimum during installation.