Battle Between Telco and Cable Providers Over Broadband Customers Wages On
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 - Highest Performing, Most Cost-Effective Bonded Copper Solution for Carrier Ethernet, DSLAM Backhaul and Mobile Backhaul
With most cell sites fed by copper for backhaul, along with half of remote DSLAMs and DLCs, and only 15 percent of businesses within reach of fiber, there is a critical need for copper solutions that offer the capacity to support transport and services ranging from 5 to 100 Mbps. Aktino’s powerful, proven bonded copper solutions fill this need. Using existing copper pairs, innovative features like Asymmetric Bandwidth, and superior DSL spectral compatibility, Aktino solutions provide 100 Mbps Carrier Ethernet or up to 45 Mbps of ATM/TDM bandwidth over existing copper pairs out to carrier serving area (CSA) distances of 12 Kft/3.7 Km. This enables carriers to offer the premium high-bandwidth Ethernet services that businesses are demanding, as well as boost their cell site and DSLAM backhaul capabilities.

The Business Case
Aktino solutions let providers leverage existing copper and with minimal investment begin delivering – within days – services that are typically available only over fiber, after months of network planning and installation. The existing fiber and copper throughout their network can be used in tandem for highly reliable, ubiquitous service across their entire footprint. This includes 10 Mbps DSL services, 10, 20 and 50+ Mbps Carrier Ethernet services, or cell site backhaul. ROI can be measured in months, rather than in years, as with fiber.

10X More Bandwidth
Whether asymmetric or symmetric transmission is in place, Aktino solutions increase backhaul bandwidth many times over the bandwidth that other copper solutions, such as T1/E1 or E.SHDSL, make possible. At CSA distances, compared with T1 IMA, Aktino offers 8 Mbps per copper pair to T1 IMA’s 768 Kbps, a 10X advantage; compared with E.SHDSL, Aktino offers a 7X advantage over its 1.15 Mbps per pair.With its foundation in VDSL2-based MIMO on DMT technology, performing copper bonding at the physical layer, Aktino’s technology overcomes the challenges of bonding and delivers unprecedented reliability, typically meeting and exceeding fiber service level agreements.

Signature Programmable Asymmetric Bandwidth
Aktino is the only bonded copper solution that features Asymmetric Bandwidth.  Because, by nature, broadband use is asymmetric, Aktino’s Asymmetric Bandwidth ensures the most efficient use of broadband bandwidth. It’s also software-enabled and user-programmable so providers can tailor it to their specific needs.

With its ability to provide up to 100 Mbps symmetric transmission at short reaches and up to 100 Mbps asymmetric at CSA distances over existing copper, Aktino’s easy to install equipment removes network limitations. It allows providers to match the true nature of broadband service traffic and use their backhaul infrastructure more efficiently. Unused bandwidth is no longer wasted by being allocated to non-existent upstream traffic.Asymmetric Bandwidth opens the door to a new Ethernet service opportunity in the Dedicated Internet Access space, one that many carriers are exploring as they take their networks to the next level.

Fiber-like Reliability
Aktino products were designed to dynamically compensate for individual copper pair failures.  If a copper pair fails, the product automatically adjusts the other copper pair margins to compensate for the loss. This allows any pair to protect all pairs in a bonded group and in many cases can result in meeting or exceeding fiber service level agreements.

Aktino Products Portfolio: Point-to-Point, Point-to-Multipoint Carrier Ethernet and ATM/TDM Solutions
AK5000 Carrier Ethernet Point-to-Multipoint and Point-to-Point Products- Cost-effective solutions for 5-100 Mbps ethernet services or backhaul over existing copper loops. Provides symmetric or asymmetric bandwidth and available in point-to-point or point-to-multipoint confifurations. Learn more >

AK3000 Point-to-Point DS3 Solution - Cost-effective ATM/TDM solution for service providers to deliver scalable high-quality bandwidth or backhaul over existing copper loops. Learn more >