Abstract-New technologies for ultra-dense WDM-PON (udWDM-PON), enabled by coherent techniques and low cost devices, are developed for an efficient utilization of the optical spectrum, revealing that the "Wavelength-to-the-User" concept can be feasible. In this work, an udWDM-PON with only 6.25 GHz channel spacing is implemented with conventional DFB lasers, for a splitter-based PON infrastructure with 256 ONUs. The results of the analysis of udWDM access network architecture with respect to their associated complexity, cost and migration scenarios, exhibit the potential for higher aggregate throughput, higher split ratios and node consolidation, when compared to competing technologies.Index Terms-Fiber optical communications, fiber-to-thehome, access networks, PON, WDM.