An introduction to PON technologies [Topics in Optical Communications]

  • Authors:
  • F. Effenberger;D. Clearly;O. Haran;G. Kramer;Ruo Ding Li;M. Oron;T. Pfeiffer

  • Affiliations:
  • Huawei Technol. US;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Communications Magazine
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Passive optical networks are the most important class of fiber access systems in the world today. This article first reviews the reasons why the PON as a general architecture is so important. We then outline in some depth the technologies used to implement this architecture, including the G-PON and E-PON systems being deployed today, and the advanced PON systems that provide the evolution path to ever higher bandwidths