The appearance of new Internet services such as video conference, high performance
gaming, video telephony, high definition television and E-learning have changed the …

This paper first reviews and describes various technologies that are enabling and
supporting the wide and continuous deployment of optical access. The Passive Optical …

This chapter describes the recent advances made in broadband access network
architectures employing Passive Optical Networks (PONs). The potential of PONs to deliver …

As the global telecommunications industry continues its transformation, we have been
witnessing a steady stream of advances in all communications technologies from optical …

Although deployment of fiber to the home (FTTH) systems has been ongoing for over 5 years
in certain markets, the industry is still in the early phases of what is expected to be a …

The rapid expansion of Internet traffic shoves the communication networks to optical access
networks for enhancing the transmission information rate. Passive optical network (PON) is a …

This paper reviews the recent progress in high speed optical access networks with
emphasis on passive optical network (PON) technologies. Overview of architecture options …

Optical access solutions have attracted the attention of researchers from both academia and
industry for a long time. In the past these solutions were not cost effective for service …

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 …

Recent research activities on WDM-PON access network architectures and related systems
technologies are reviewed. Some key issues of current interest in WDM PON are discussed …