Fibre to the home (FTTH) in Cape Verde.

Tortuga Beach Resort will consist of a variety of bars and restaurants, pools and relaxation areas, a beach club, gymnasium, shops, 52 villas, 306 apartments, 14 hotel suites and a state-of-the-art spa. The project was to install, fusion splice and test the fibre optic cable infrastructure to supply multiple services to the resort including: fast internet access, multi-channel high definition TV, video-on-demand, telephony, fire detection, door entry systems and CCTV all controlled by a remotely monitored, centralised management system.

By implementing the latest fibre to the home (FTTH) technology, we were able to supply a future-proofed, high bandwidth capacity network that supplies multiple services to numerous dwellings while maintaining optimum performance.

The system takes advantage of a GPON (Passive Optical Network) which is a point-to-multipoint, fibre-to-the-premises network architecture using passive (non-powered) optical splitters deployed across the resort site. In this way, a single optical fibre will be used to serve multiple premises, reducing the amount of fibre and central office equipment required compared with a point-to-point architecture.