Monserrate is a high Mountain over 10,000 feet high that dominates the city center of Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia. It rises to 3,152 meters (10,341 ft) above the sea level, where there is a church (built in the 17th century) with a shrine, devoted to El Señor Caído ("The Fallen Lord").

The Mountain, already considered sacred in pre-Columbian times when the area was inhabited by the indigenous Muisca, is a pilgrim destination, as well as a major tourist attraction. In addition to the church, the summit contains restaurants, cafeteria, souvenir shops and many smaller tourist facilities. Monserrate can be accessed by aerial tramway (a cable car known as the teleférico), by funicular, or by climbing, the preferred way of thousand of pilgrims.

Retos
Offer and develop a robust and scalable connectivity solution to meet the needs of the administrative and operational part of the Monserrate hill by integrating the entrance and ticket offices with the management points of the Cable Car, Funicular, restaurants and homes at the tip of the hill , through a fiber optic connection in about 1 km. The project was developed by our partner ODF Net Solution. The main objective is to provide centralized access, improving the transfer speed from 1G to 10G, giving more bandwidth to serve more users who visit the sanctuary every day.

Solución

D-Link provided a complete end-to-end network infrastructure. Including POE and non-PoE switches, and all the transceivers necessary to expand the network, improving bandwidth and generating high-redundancy channels. This network handles box office, VoIP and internet data for users at the top of the hill, restaurant and transport services, creating enough structure to improve wireless connectivity in new projects, for all the parishioners, tourists and administrators of Monserrate.

This project leads to have enough structure to improve wireless connectivity in new projects, for all the parishioners, tourists and administrators of Monserrate.

The data structure was implemented with DGS-3630 family layer 3 switches and as edge switches DGS-1510 family switches, due to their 10G positions and high performance. The links were made using DEM-432XT transceivers, single-mode transceivers that support distances of up to 10KM on redundant channels and transfer channels of up to 20G.