The Pros And Cons Of 3 Types Of PON Topologies
FierceTelecom, Tuesday, August 8,2023
t a session today at the Mountain Connect show, a group of panelists discussed getting fiber to 'everywhere' in the U.S. And many of those places will be in rural areas that have previously been unserved by any type of broadband connection, let alone fiber.
Kevin Morgan, chief marketing officer with Clearfield, explained that from a technology perspective, there are at least three different passive optical network (PON) topologies to deploy and split fiber.
With PON, 'You're setting a fiber with a light source and splitting that light signal typically 32 times,' said Morgan.
He said the most popular PON architecture is the centralized split where a hub cabinet is placed on a pad, pole or inside a vault and then the fibers are split within that enclosure.