High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 10G-PON (also known as XG-PON) is a 2010 computer networking standard for data links, capable of delivering shared Internet access rates up to 10 Gbit/s (gigabits per second) over existing passive optics. Passive optical network (PON) architecture has become a cost effective way to meet performance demands in access networks. Optical fibre is shared by many subscribers in a network known as FTTx, often displacing the copper lines.