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Business services and mobile revive WDM-PON interest
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 8:32AM
"WDM-PON is many things to many people" - Jon Baldry
It was in 2005 that Novera Optics, a pioneer of WDM-PON (wavelength-division multiplexing, passive optical networking), was working with Korea Telecom in a trial involving 50,000 residential lines. Yet, one decade later, WDM-PON remains an emerging technology. And when a WDM-PON deployment does occur, it is for business services and mobile backhaul rather than residential broadband.