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Motorola introduces Passive Optical LAN

Motorola this week introduced its Passive Optical LAN technology for enterprise networks. At the Interop trade show in Las Vegas, Motorola unveiled POL, which brings gigabit passive optical networking, or GPON, to enterprise backbones. Read full story

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