54 I ICT TODAY
Flourishing POL Market Poised
for Expansion
Time certainly cannot be decelerated,
and perhaps POL has hit a point where
its adoption rate cannot be slowed
either. POL experienced healthy growth
in 2018 due, in part, to its appealing
characteristics shown in Figure 5 and by
attaining greater awareness, increased
players, and more North American and
global customers. Leading industry
indicators point toward POL as a mature
and flourishing technology poised for
expansion in the future, since it can
directly help the ICT industry
overcome challenges with wireless,
IoT and security.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY: John Hoover is a senior product
manager at Tellabs Access and serves as board director
for APOLAN. Over the past 15 years, he has focused on
early PON deployments, video implementations, wireless
technologies, and most recently POL adoption for virtually
every vertical industry. He is a graduate of California State
University Long Beach with a major in Business and
a minor in Economics. John can be reached at
john.hoover@tellabs.com.
REFERENCES:
1. Hanover Research,
Passive Optical LAN Survey,
October 2017. http://apolanglobal.org/hanover-
research-passive-optical-lan-survey-analysis/
2. Gartner, Inc.,
Does Passive Optical LAN Have
a Future in Your Access Network?
March 14, 2018.
https://www.gartner.com/doc/3868487/does-
passive-optical-lan-future
3. BSRIA Limited,
Passive Optical Local Area Networks
(POL) 2018.
https://www.bsria.co.uk/market-intelligence/
market-reports/publication/passive-optical-local-area-
networks-pol-2018/
FIGURE 5: Hanover Research survey showing appealing characteristics
of POL.
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