the developed opportunities of WDM-PON are firstly analyzed.WDM-PON has not been commercially deployed in the worldwide scale
due to its ultra-high implementation and maintaining costs
and therefore WDM-PON is facing to the big challenges.We discuss and compared in details some kinds of techniques which were developed for reducing the costs of WDM-PON
mainly including
1) using wavelength-independent(colorless) light sources in the optical network units
and 2) using centralized optical sources in the optical line terminal of WDM-PON.