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
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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
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