A survey/ Development of Passive Optical Access Networks Technologies

The bandwidth requirements of the telecommunication network users increased rapidly during the last decades. Optical access technologies must provide the bandwidth demand for each user.The passive optical access networks (PONs) support a maximum data rate of 100 Gbps by using the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technique in the optical access network. In this paper, the optical broadband access networks with many techniques from Time Division Multiplexing Passive Optical Networks (TDM PON) to Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex Passive Optical Networks (OFDM PON) are presented. The architectures, advantages, disadvantages, and main parameters of these optical access networks are discussed and reportedwhich have many advantages to become next-generation broadband access networks.