Chapter 3 thoroughly covers PON-related optical technologies and their state
of the art.
Chapter 4 focuses on the properties and characteristics of PON transcei-
vers, which are quite different from those used with conventional two-fiber,
continuous-mode optical transmission systems.
Chapter 5 reviews the ranging process and dynamic bandwidth allocation
protocols, which are essential to the operation and performance of power-
splitting TDM PON systems.
As the PON speed and service group size increases, reliability and availability
becomes more and more important. Chapter 6 discusses protection switching
and traffic restoration schemes for PON systems.
A PON system differs from the traditional fiber-optic system in its P2MP and
one-fiber bidirectional ...