SIMULATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK SYSTEM

PON provides virtually unlimited bandwidth to the users. It do not use electrically powered components to split the signal. Instead the signal is distributed using beam splitters. Each splitter typically splits a fiber into 16, 32, or 64 fibers, 55 km. BPON uses ATM as the protocol. The Broadband passive optical network (BPON) was the first attem pt towards a PON standard. It is controlled by the ITU - T and is designated as ITU - T G.983. This paper provides an overview of PON and analyses network architecture, and evaluate the system performance in terms of BER and Q Factor of the PON system. The per formance of PON System is evaluated using Opti system version 12.0.