The PON uplink uses wavelength division multiplexing
While both technologies share a similar physical topology, WDM-PON employs passive WDM MUX/DEMUX devices for wavelength management, creating a wavelength-based point-to-point logical connection that ensures user resource isolation. While it follows the FTTx point-to-multipoint topology, there are marked differences between the two technologies: TDM-PON WDM-PON TDM-PON WDM-PON While both technologies. The ONU then converts the optical signals into electrical signals for the end-users to access. Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) is a technique used in fiber optic communication that allows multiple data signals to be transmitted simultaneously over a single optical fiber. The passive optical network (PON) is an optical fiber based network architecture, which can provide much higher bandwidth in the access network compared to traditional copper-based networks.
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