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Physical Layer Testing of Passive Optical Network (PON) Modules
Agilent Technologies
Product Paper
December 2005
A Passive Optical Network (PON1) is an access technology based on the specification developed by the Full Service Access Network (FSAN) vendor consortium. The ITU-T subsequently ratified PONs in the G.983.1 Recommendation.
Passive is the key word here: PON uses small, inexpensive optical splitters, rather than the relatively large, expensive, and power-hungry optical repeaters used in more traditional optical networks.
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