Migration to GPON: Practical considerations from the central office to the outside plant

(courtesy of Lightwave and Pennwell)

Story by Patrick J. Sims and Pat Thompson of ADC

Service providers need not look too far in the past to find examples
of networks built without consideration for future technologies. While
our telecommunications forefathers may not have predicted today’s
broadband revolution as they designed the copper telephone network,
this legacy infrastructure still enabled a rough deployment of xDSL
technologies.

However,
the unpredictable performance of xDSL over load coils, splices, varying
gauges and conditions of the legacy copper network produced costly
lessons in

Migration to GPON: Practical considerations from the central office to the outside plant

(By Patrick J. Sims and Pat Thompson, ADC)

Practical considerations—based on informed decision-making—provide the foundation for a cost-effective transition between legacy and future access technologies.

Service providers need not look too far in the past to find examples of networks built without consideration for future technologies. While our telecommunications forefathers may not have predicted today’s broadband revolution as they designed the copper telephone network, this legacy infrastructure still enabled a rough deployment of xDSL technologies.