Aktino, Inc. is a private (founded in 2003) telecommunications equipment vendor based in Irvine, CA. Founded by a group of executives from PairGain Technologies, Aktino is led by a top-tier management team from companies such as PairGain, ADC, Globespan (Conexant), Adtran among others. Aktino has developed a carrier grade product portfolio that allows telecommunications service providers to leverage the embedded copper loop infrastructure to quickly deliver a wide range of high-speed, high-quality broadband services. 

Fiber Impact on a Copper Budget
As demand for bandwidth and competitive threats squeeze telcos in their struggle to hold onto customers and protect profits, they need a solution that maximizes their tightening CapEx budgets. This makes it imperative to implement a solution that truly leverages their existing copper infrastructure in addition to fiber.  Aktino has the answer - the industry's most robust bonded copper solutions for business class Carrier Ethernet and legacy broadband services over existing copper loops.   

A leader in using VDSL2-based MIMO-on-DMT, Aktino's product suite provides highly reliable and substantial bandwidth ubiquitously over a CSA (Carrier Serving Area) range. The suite includes a 5-100 Mbps Carrier Ethernet solution in addition to TDM/ATM solutions.  By leveraging copper in a way that can co-exist with other services, Aktino solutions enable providers to get the impact of fiber on a copper budget.  That is, they allow providers to offer new, more profitable high bandwidth services quickly over a large footprint without incurring significant up-front construction delays and costs.

Aktino Solutions-Carrier Ethernet Services and DSLAM/Cell Site Backhaul
Since Aktino’s solutions became available, service providers have deployed them in many different applications, which include business-class Carrier Ethernet services, DSLAM backhaul, Cell Site backhaul, among others.  These providers have found that Aktino’s clear performance advantage of 2-10 times more bandwidth than the competition, fiber-like reliability and signature features like Asymmetric Bandwidth set Aktino apart as the highest performing, most cost-effective bonded copper solution on the market.