During the telecommunications boom, service providers spent billions building metro fiber networks. However, even after spending billions on metro fiber networks, the vast majority of businesses and service cabinets outside of dense metro areas are still only served by copper loops.

"It has taken 20 years to provide fiber access to less than 10% of commercial buildings..."
- Source: Current Analysis, 6/2004

"Only 8-10% of major office buildings have fiber."
- Source: IDC estimate, 2003

Fortunately, with the recent advances in copper technologies and standards, service providers can use existing copper loops as a viable alternative to fiber for broadband services. With Aktino's platforms, service providers can extend their Metro Fiber Network and deliver high-quality, high-bandwidth services over existing copper loops. Aktino's platforms not only enable service providers to offer new revenue generating business-class broadband services such as DS3, Fractional DS3 and Ethernet, but they also can provide the backhaul to remote DSLAMs, DLCs, Cell Sites, among others, over their existing copper assets. Given the limited availability of fiber and the recent advances in copper broadband solutions, service providers will continue to utilize their existing copper assets to deliver to high-bandwidth services well into the foreseeable future.