Abstract

The passive optical network (PON) is one of the architectures currently being favored for fiber-in-the-loop deployments. While current PONs are being used primarily for narrowband services, they are intended to be upgradeable to broadband service delivery. We have recently shown that transmission rates suitable for compressed digital video services can be transmitted cost-effectively using a combination of coarse wavelength division multiplexing, time-division multiplexing, and subcarrier multiple access (SCMA).¹

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