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by zajio1am 1808 days ago
> Although GPON is shared, it is not half duplex!

Seems like you are right! Although most are asymmetric (2488 / 1244 Mbps). I guess that even for ones with symmetric bitrates, effective upstream transfer rate would be lower than downstream transfer rate due to synchronization / higher inter-frame period needs.