Executive Summary
Residents at a legacy 400-unit multifamily community building required reliable, high-speed Internet access. The properties were built over 75 years ago and their infrastructure was not suitable for a traditional fiber-to-the-unit upgrade, making such an approach cost-prohibitive and highly disruptive.
Partnering with Positron Access Solutions, NUVISION SOLUTIONS LLC leveraged Positron’s Gigabit Any Media (GAM) platform to deploy a high-speed broadband solution by transforming the property’s existing in-wall wiring into a Gigabit Ethernet network, achieving full deployment in days rather than months.
The Challenge: Legacy Copper & High Construction Barriers
Built in 1949, this multifamily community comprises 400 apartment units across seven residential buildings. Like many legacy properties, its internal infrastructure relied on decades-old Category 3 (Cat3) telephone wiring that was never designed to support today’s broadband demands.
Upgrading the property presented several operational and financial challenges:
- Invasive Infrastructure Costs: Rewiring the buildings would have required an estimated capital investment of approximately $50,000 per building (seven buildings), including core drilling, hallway molding, new cabling and coordination of access to every apartment.
- Resident Disruption: Core drilling, opening walls, installing new conduits and coordinating access to every apartment would have created significant disruption, noise and inconvenience for residents.
- Extended Time-to-Market: Conventional rewiring would have stretched the project timeline over several months, delaying service activation and revenue generation.
The Solution: Active Infrastructure Reuse with Positron GAM
NUVISION bypassed invasive construction by deploying the Positron GAM platform. This advanced access technology transformed the existing 73-year-old CAT-3 twisted-pair telephone wiring into a high-performance broadband network.
By delivering carrier-grade Gigabit bandwidth over the existing copper infrastructure, NUVISION achieved a rapid, non-invasive deployment:
- Zero Wall Penetrations: No new holes, no dust, and virtually no disruption to residents.
- Rapid Deployment: Installation was completed in approximately one day per building, bringing residents online almost immediately.
- Operational Continuity: The property remained fully operational throughout the migration.
The Results
The Results
By maximizing the value of existing infrastructure instead of replacing it, NUVISION delivered a fast, scalable, and highly cost-effective broadband solution.
Project Impact Metrics
- Performance: Up to 500 Mbps symmetrical broadband delivered where high-speed Internet service had previously been unavailable.
- Deployment Velocity: Approximately one day per building (seven days for the entire property).
- Capital Efficiency: Eliminated the need for an estimated $50,000 capital investment per building that would have been required for structural rewiring.
- Business Value: NUVISION achieved a positive Return on Investment (ROI) in well under 12 months.
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