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Testing Challenges in Point-to-Multipoint Pon Testing

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Testing Challenges in Point-to-Multipoint Pon Testing

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  • Author: Stephane Chabot, Michel Leblanc
This paper will focus primarily on answering critical questions concerning testing FTTP with outside plant equipment, particularly during the deployment and maintenance of PONs. We will discuss cost-effective solutions for the end-user, as well as provide an overview of mathematical splice-loss predictions for PONs obtained by PTMPN OTDR measurements. While traditional long-haul and metro fiber-optic networks have been laid out using point-to-point networks, fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) architectures, which use passive optical network (PON) technologies, bring in a totally different concept to network testing. This is because FTTH architectures use passive optical splitters between the optical line termination (OLT) and optical network terminations (ONTs) with a traditional coupling ratio of 1:32 (reached with different coupler combinations).

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