PON Advantages
PON Advantages: Shared infrastructure translates to lower cost per customer minimal number of optical transceivers feeder fiber and transceiver costs divided by N customers greenfield per-customer cost similar to UTP [boxads] Passive splitters translate to lower cost can be installed anywhere no power needed essentially unlimited MTBF Fiber data-rates can be upgraded as technology improves initially 155 Mbps then 622 Mbps now 1.25 Gbps soon 2.5 Gbps and higher