Passive Optical Network Splitters – What do they do?

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Passive Optical Network (PON) splitters play an important role in Fibre to the Home (FTTH networks) by allowing a single PON network interface to be shared among many subscribers. There are two types of splitters available; either PLC Splitter (Planar Lightwave Circuit) or FBT Splitter (Fused Biconical).Get more news about customized passive optical splitter,you can vist our website!

PON splitters use a beam splitter to implement a point-to-multipoint framework. The benefit of a PON fiber optics network is to serve a lot of endpoints from one fibre optic cable.
PLC Splitters in each optical network are installed. They are then installed between the PON Optical Line Terminal (OLT) and the Optical Network Terminals (ONTs) that the OLT serves. Any Local Network using BPON, GPON, EPON, 10G EPON, and 10G GPON would all use these simple optical splitters. In place of an optical splitter, a WDM PON network will use an Arrayed Wave Guide (AWG).

A PON network may be designed with a single optical splitter, or it can have two or more splitters cascaded together. Each optical connection adds attenuation, a single splitter is superior to multiple cascaded splitters. When connecting two splitters together, one net additional coupling (and source of attenuation) is introduced.

The GPON network singular splitter image is shown below. The splitter can be used in the Central Office (CO) alongside the OLT, or in an Outside Plant (OSP) closer to the subscribers. For a Multiple Dwelling Unit (MDU) installation, a splitter can also be used in the basement.
Splitters provide a cost-effective solution for both parties, as each customer doesn’t have to have their own fibre run to be linked to the hub as they can share one fibre between multiple users.

– Another pro is that Splitters contain no electronics and therefore use no power. They’re the network elements that put the passive in Passive Optical Networking (PON) and are available in a variety of split ratios, including a split configuration of 1:8, 1:16 and 1:32. In other words, for one single mode fiber link there can potentially be 8 subscribers.

-A PON network replaces copper cable with smaller and cost-effective single-mode fibre optic cable. POLAN (Passive Optical LAN) is a local area network (LAN) where PON is used.