Fibre-to-the-Home networks constitute a fundamental telecom segment with the required potential
to match the huge capacity of transport networks with the new user communication demands. Huge
investments in access network infrastructure are expected for the next decade with many
initiatives already launched around the globe recently driven by the new broadband service
demands and the necessity by operators to deploy a future-proof infrastructure in the field.
Dense FTTH Passive Optical Networks (PONs) is a cost-efficient way to build fibre access and
international standards (G E-PON) have been already launched leading to new set of telecom
products for mass deployment. However these systems only make use of less than 1% of the
optical bandwidth thus relevant research is taking place to maximize the capacity of these
systems with the latest opto-electronic technologies demonstrating that the huge bandwidth
available through the fibre access can be exploited in a cost-efficient and reliable manner.
Next-Generation FTTH Passive Optical Networks gathers and analyzes the most relevant techniques
developed recently on technologies for the next generation FTTH networks trying to answer the
question: what's after G E-PONs?
