XKL is beefing up its DarkStar line of DWDM products with a range of new features targeting long-haul network opportunities. The company has added Raman amplification, dynamic equalization, and optical channel monitoring.
XKL’s 650mW dual-pump, Class 1M Raman amplifiers enable customers to extend reach to +300km distances when mid-span stages aren’t viable. Notably, the Class 1M designation ensures amplification safety and effectiveness without dedicated deployment training, bringing down barriers to advanced networking.
Its improved amplifier chain, which offers dynamic equalization and optical channel monitoring, offers the benefit of vendor neutrality, integrating seamlessly with customers’ existing core network and eliminating operational disruption. This allows customers to monitor signal dynamics, identify performance fluctuations and optimize operational performance within their DWDM networks more effectively.
An additional benefit of the new upgrades is its no-license-fee network, which adds ease to cost forecasting and delivers low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). As a result, XKL empowers customers to reduce strain on long-term planning while enjoying easier, more predictable network investment with no hidden costs. This advantage is particularly crucial in an era of unpredictable costs from cloud expenditure and other IT investments.
Chad Lamb, Chief Systems Architect at XKL, said the new product enhancements are designed to cut planning and cost complexity while offering more advantages for long-haul and local applications.
“XKL is here to prove that network deployment, expansion and management doesn’t have to be burdened by complex, larger-than-life solutions with inaccessible operational or financial models,” he said. “It really can be as easy and as right-sized as customers need it to be.”
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Sean is the Editor-in-Chief of Lightwave. He establishes and executes Lightwave's editorial strategy across its website, email newsletters, events, and other information products. Before coming to Lightwave in July 2023, he served as editor of Broadband Communities. Earlier, he served as senior editor of FierceTelecom and the editor of the former Telecommunications Magazine. He got his start in the optical industry in 1998 when he became the editor of enterprise and optical networks at Information Gatekeepers. He has a BA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and lives in Dracut, Mass, with his wife, two sons, and his cat, Dove.
