Advances in broadband passive optical networking technologies.

Advances in broadband passive optical networking technologies.

Several new technological advancements have extended the capabilities of the basic broadband passive optical network (B-PON) described in the ITU-T standard G.983.1. This article describes three of these new technologies: wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), dynamic bandwidth assignment, and surv...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE Communications magazine 39, 12 (2001).
Main Author: Effenberger, F.J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
B-PON.
ITU-T standard G.983.1.
WDM.
Broadband passive optical network.
Dynamic bandwidth assignment.
Network capacity.
Network efficiency.
Network reliability.
Survivable networking.
Wavelength division multiplexing.