Fiber Impact on a Copper Budget
The demand for bandwidth is insatiable and in many markets intense competition from competitors like Cable MSOs continue to put tremendous pressure on broadband service prices. 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. Evidence of this is the fact that nearly 50% of remote DSLAMs/DLCs in the U.S. are still fed by T1s/E1s on copper, which in most cases limits total backhaul bandwidth to 6-12 Mbps.
Luckily, increasingly more providers have found the answer to this dilemma in Aktino's powerful and proven bonded copper solutions. Using existing copper pairs, innovative features like Asymmetric Bandwidth, superior DSL spectral compatibility and compatibility with a wide array of DSLAMs/DLCs, Aktino's solutions provide up to 100 Mbps of Carrier Ethernet backhaul bandwidth or a DS3 (45 Mbps) over existing copper pairs out to carrier serving area distances (12 Kft/3.7 Km). The result is that with minimal CapEx providers can:
- Uncap DSLAMs/DLCs in days
- Deliver premium 5 and 10+ Mbps services
- Increase the number of customers served with existing equipment
- Hold onto customers & profits
- Preserve precious CapEx
The Business Case: Minimum CapEx, Maximum ROI
The Aktino solution lets providers leverage existing copper and existing DSLAMs/DLCs and uncap them within days vs. months compared to fiber. It's estimated that these can result in the following:
Deliver premium 5 and 10+ Mbps services
Double (min.) DSL capacity per DSLAM/DLC
Double subscribers served
More than double total revenue by selling premium services
2-3 year payback vs. 5-10 yrs for fiber
10X More Bandwidth Than HDSL Technologies
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)
Signature Programmable Asymmetric Bandwidth
Aktino is the only bonded copper solution that features Asymmetric Backhaul Bandwidth. Since the nature of broadband use is asymmetric, Aktino's Asymmetric Bandwidth allows providers to match the true nature of their backhaul traffic and therefore use resources as efficiently as they possibly can. Additionally, it's programmable enabling it to be tailored to individual applications.
Unparalleled Spectral Compatibility
Solutions like E.SHDSL can impact DSL bandwidth by 50% or more. In contrast, because the Aktino solutions leverages Discrete Multi-tone (DMT) protocol just as ADSL does, the impact on ADSL is minimal.
Compatible with a Wide Array of DSLAMs/DLCs
Aktino solutions are currently being used with a wide array of DSLAMs and DLCs which include systems from vendors like Calix, Tellabs, Adtran, Occam, etc.
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