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Common Provisioning and Management of PON: A New Working Group Launches

March 21, 2024

Consistent with the strategy outlined in a recent blog, CableLabs has recently launched two new working groups related to fiber to the premises (FTTP). Information on one of the working groups — Optical Operations and Maintenance — can be found here. The subject is this blog is the provisioning and management of passive optical networking […]

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10G-EPON vs. XGS-PON: Are They Really All That Different?

December 5, 2023

The U.S. government is investing billions of dollars in broadband infrastructure. That funding will predominately be used to deploy fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) networks using passive optical network (PON) technology. Most U.S. broadband providers are focused on deploying a 10G variant of PON technology, and two types are widely available in the market today: 10G-EPON and XGS-PON. […]

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Why Accelerating FTTP Adoption Is Critical to Leveraging PON’s Potential

October 25, 2023

Alongside the hustle and bustle in the cable industry to deploy DOCSIS® 4.0 technology, another 10G solution quietly plods along with pinpoint precision: fiber to the premises (FTTP). In FTTP, the premises can represent a home, business, campus, multiple-dwelling unit, etc. Despite what fiber overbuilders might want you to believe, the cable industry has always […]

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