Exponential Growth in Bandwidth Demand, Intense Competition, Tightening CapEx Budgets
The demand for bandwidth is insatiable for both wireline and wireless services. Additionally, the battle between the Cable MSOs and telecom service providers wages on having expanded beyond the residential market and into the small and medium business (SMB) market. All these things combined have set the stage for intense price competition and tremendous downward pressure on price/Mbps. The result is that many Telco providers are struggling to hold on to customers and protect profits.
Many look to fiber as the answer, but the majority have found that with their CapEx budgets tightening and the long payback required for fiber, that they're caught between a rock and a hard place.
Aktino Has the Answer: Fiber Impact on a Copper Budget
Luckily, Aktino provides a solution that is both quick and cost-effective. Aktino bonded copper solution lets providers leverage existing copper pairs, making it possible to be deployed in days vs. months often required for fiber and to avoiding the cost associated with trenching fiber. This is extremely valuable to many providers as it allows them to preserve precious capital for projects that can break even much faster than fiber-based services.
Up to 10X More Bandwidth Over Existing Copper
By providing up to 100 Mbps of Carrier Ethernet Bandwidth, the Aktino Carrier Ethernet solutions increase backhaul bandwidth by up to 10 times more than other copper solutions at CSA distances:
10 times more bandwidth than T1 IMA
(8 Mbps/pair vs. 0.768 Mbps/pair)
7 times more bandwidth than E.SHDSL
(8 Mbps/pair vs. 1.15 Mbps/pair)
Savvy Providers Are Realizing and Exploiting the Asymmetric Nature of Backhaul & Broadband Traffic
Service providers are increasingly acknowledging the reality of the asymmetric nature of backhaul traffic and business services traffic. They've always known this about residential broadband services, but are now beginning to acknowledge and exploit this for mobile backhaul and business services as well.
For many, this has meant that they've turned to Aktino for help. Aktino is the only bonded copper solution that features Asymmetric Bandwidth. Aktino Asymmetric Bandwidth feature allows providers to match the true nature of their backhaul traffic and therefore use resources as efficiently as they possibly can, i.e. minimize the number of pairs required. Additionally, it's programmable making it possible for providers to choose the right ratio of down/upstream bandwidth for each application.
Fiber-Like Reliability
By leveraging VDLS2-based MIMO on DMT technology and performing the bonding at the physical layer (Layer 1), Aktino solutions overcome the problems of existing copper bonding methods, making it possible to deliver not only unprecedented bandwidth, but with unprecedented reliability. In fact, Aktino was able to prove this in a major U.S. service provider mobile backhaul trial in which the Aktino backhaul solution met and exceeded fiber service level agreements (SLAs) even in a lightning prone region.
Key Applications
Symmetric and Asymmetric Carrier Ethernet Services
DSLAM/DLC Backhaul
Mobile Backhaul
DS3 Services
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