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November/December 2018 I 49 In late 2017, APOLAN, a non-profit association advocating the education and global adoption of POL, commissioned Hanover Research to provide a custom study on the technology's awareness and adoption. The survey revealed that 44 percent of the ICT professionals they spoke with heard of POL and were familiar with it. 59 percent found fiber-based LAN solutions very appealing. 1 The findings from the POL survey showcased how the industry perception of POL evolved very quickly over the last few years. Hanover Research went on to identify POL's most appealing benefits driving its growth (see Figure 2). According to survey participants, the most appealing benefits included product quality, reliability, longevity and POL's centralized management capabilities. Increased Players and Customers Gartner, a global research and advisory firm, has been actively tracking the market adoption for POL since its inception. Over the years, it has published several studies FIGURE 2: Hanover Research survey showing 59% of respondents find fiber "very" and "extremely" appealing. The latest BSRIA global POL study, Passive Optical Local Area Networks (POL) 2018, calculated that the POL market is ramping at a 46% compound annual growth rate (CAGR).