Community Broadband University

This brief module kicks off Kara Mullaley's PON Architecture series as she digs deep into the four main options for your broadband network architecture.

To be clear we are talking about your fiber infrastructure, not a baseball game, nonetheless Kara dives into the details of the most fiber rich network design- a homerun architecture.

Centralized Split is the most common architecture deployed in North America, perhaps its the right fit for you. Watch this short video to learn more.

Also known as a multi-level split, a distributed split architecture provides flexibility in split ratios for the service area, but requires more splitters and actives.

Last, but not least, the leanest network architecture type-distributed tap. This network design contains uneven, unbalanced, asymmetric, split levels.

There are two primary transport technologies - Active Ethernet and PON. Joe Jensen compares and contrasts the competing approaches providing pros and cons for each.