Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)-based Passive Optical Networks (PON) has gained
attention due to the massive growth in bandwidth demand resulting from the increased …

Passive optical networks (PONs) are currently evolving into next-generation PONs (NG-
PONs) which aim at achieving higher data rates, wavelength channel counts, number of …

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 …

The wavelength-division-multiplexed passive optical network (WDM-PON) is considered to
be the next evolutionary solution for a simplified and future-proofed access system that can …

Fiber to the home is the future-proof technology for broadband access networks. Several
fiber access network architectures have been developed (eg, point-to-point, active optical …

Optical fibre access to the user, the so-called Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH), is becoming a
mature concept and a reality in many regions of the globe, with more than 8 millions homes …

Broadband Optical Access and Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) will provide the ultimate
broadband service capabilities. Compared with the currently well-deployed broadband …

In this paper, we propose a long-reach star-ring-based timeand wavelength-
divisionmultiplexing passive optical network (TWDM-PON) by using fiberand free space …

Feature Issue on Passive Optical Network Architectures and Technologies We propose what
we believe to be a novel protection scheme compatible with smooth migration from a time …

Network survivability and protection mechanisms are very important and necessary in
optical networks. The long-reach passive optical network (LR-PON) proposed in this paper …