Abstract :
As optical networking has become more affordable, it has moved from the network backbone to wide and metropolitan area networks and then to the local loop. To take advantage of this, telecommunications providers have begun experimenting with various fiber-based technologies to find ones that offer high performance at low cost. One of the leading candidates has been touted for years as the wave of the future: passive optical networks.
Keywords :
asynchronous transfer mode; optical fibre LAN; ATM; Ethernet; asynchronous transfer mode; fiber-based technologies; passive fibre optical networks; telecom carriers; Ethernet networks; Fiber lasers; High speed optical techniques; Optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Optical sensors; Passive optical networks; Repeaters; Telecommunications;
