This paper discusses future evolution scenarios of PON systems for residential-service application as well as for large business and mobile backhaul applications given the typical network configurations currently deployed.
A fiber optic splitter is a passive optical device that enables a light signal on an optical fiber to be distributed among two or more fibers.
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A fiber optic splitter is a passive optical device that can split an incident light beam into two or more light beams (or) it combines two or more light beams into a single light beam.