The concept of using passive optical LANs in enterprise campuses has been around for years, but hasn’t taken off because most businesses consider all-fiber networks to be overkill for their needs.

PON (passive-optical-network) technologies provide high-speed, robust, last-mile access over 20-km spans with no field-powered equipment. All PON flavors support a minimum of 32 drops from a single ...

The traditional copper telephone wire network still in use today was designed to operate at a bandwidth of up to 4 kHz–the top-end of the voice range. With analog modems, ISDN, and finally xDSL ...

Fiber-Wireless Broadband Access Networks, frequently termed FiWi networks, represent an advanced integration of optical fibre technology and wireless communications. This hybrid architecture combines ...