GPON or Gigabit passive optical network is a point to multipoint access mechanism.
The main characteristics of GPON is the use of passive splitters, which enable a single feeding fiber from the networks provider's central location to serve multiple users with their homes and small business.
GPON uses the advanced Encryption standard (AES) for security purpose, which was designed to be efficient in both hardware and software and support a block length of 128 bits and key length 128, 192 and 256 bits.
GPON also support all types of Ethernet protocol.