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48 I ICT TODAY New technology adoption starts with an awareness of a new idea that offers some improvement to the greater industry. It was more than 10 years ago when Verizon launched its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) service called FIOS, which was based on passive optical network (PON) technology. With the success of this residential offering of voice, data and video over a passive optical fiber infrastructure, Verizon began to explore adjacent market verticals, such as downtown high-rise apartment buildings and multi-tenant units (MTUs). Then came large federal government campuses. When businesses, whether government or commercial enterprises, adopted PON technology, it began to serve the ICT needs of the enterprise LAN. That meant the PON optical line terminals (OLTs) in the enterprise's main data center and optical network terminals (ONTs) at workers' desks or work stations were required to support advanced Ethernet, IP, security, controlled access, and power over Ethernet (PoE) applications. Industry-wide awareness of the success of PON, FTTH and Verizon FIOS is well known, while awareness about enterprise-POL has been steadily growing over the years [Figure 1]. FIGURE 1: Comparing the configurations of a passive optical LAN to a traditional copper-based active Ethernet LAN. Industry-wide awareness of the success of PON, FTTH and Verizon FIOS is well known, while awareness about enterprise-POL has been steadily growing over the years. Greater Industry Awareness