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.
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