Full Speed Ahead for High-Speed PON?Full Speed Ahead for High-Speed PON?

High-speed PON is clearly a growing phenomenon. With demand for ever-faster broadband service still soaring and massive government subsidies for fiber network builds now available, the pace of high-speed PON development will only accelerate. Where is PON technology heading? What new services and applications will the technology enable? What are the greatest challenges in upgrading and deploying high-speed PON? How can these challenges be overcome? In this video interview, Harj Ghuman, vice president of strategic products at Precision Optical, explores these and other issues.

Alan Breznick, Principal Analyst, Heavy Reading

July 3, 2024

About the Author

Alan Breznick

Principal Analyst, Heavy Reading

Alan Breznick is a business editor and research analyst who has tracked the cable, broadband and video markets like an over-bred bloodhound for more than 20 years.

As a senior analyst at Light Reading's research arm, Heavy Reading, for six years, Alan authored numerous reports, columns, white papers and case studies, moderated dozens of webinars, and organized and hosted more than 15 -- count 'em --regional conferences on cable, broadband and IPTV technology topics. And all this while maintaining a summer job as an ostrich wrangler.

Before that, he was the founding editor of Light Reading Cable, transforming a monthly newsletter into a daily website. Prior to joining Light Reading, Alan was a broadband analyst for Kinetic Strategies and a contributing analyst for One Touch Intelligence.

He is based in the Toronto area, though is New York born and bred. Just ask, and he will take you on a power-walking tour of Manhattan, pointing out the tourist hotspots and the places that make up his personal timeline: The bench where he smoked his first pipe; the alley where he won his first fist fight. That kind of thing.

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