Passive optical network (PON) technologies have become an important broadband access
technology as a result of the growing demand for bandwidth-hungry video-on-demand …

Over the last decade, passive optical networks (PONs) have emerged as an attractive and
promising approach to deliver broadband services to a large number of subscribers. In a …

Passive optical network (PON) technologies have become an important broadband access
technology as a result of the growing demand for bandwidth-hungry video-on-demand …

This chapter discusses the history of broadband access network and passive optical network
(PON) developments. It also discusses the economical and policy forces behind broadband …