Service providers are under constant pressure to carry more traffic, maintain high levels of availability and meet increasingly demanding enterprise connectivity requirements. At the same time, they need to modernize their infrastructure and expand their service portfolios while controlling operational costs and protecting margins.
Find answers to common questions about growing networks and services for service providers.
Ekinops offers multiple avenues to increasing capacity over existing fiber. First, our FlexRate™ coherent technology allows service providers to increase the line rate of the existing channel without needing an upgrade license. Second, our long experience with alien wavelengths makes it simple to add an Ekinops channel over an existing line system, even if it’s not ours. Third, we provide bi-directional transport capability over a single fiber strand at line rates from 10G to 800G.
Ekinops SD-WAN runs as a software upgrade on the router fleet service providers already have deployed. SD-WAN Director’s admin interface and the customer and partner portals can be fully customized with the provider’s own name and branding. The service spans three tiers (service provider, reseller partner and end customer), each with its own portal, so providers can run it directly or delegate parts of it to partners and customers.
Service providers can help their customers replace legacy VPN and secure web access with managed SSE and Zero Trust services, hosted in Europe. The Ekinops platform is developed and hosted on trusted European infrastructure, so encryption keys, credentials and metadata stay under European jurisdiction.
Ekinops builds on open, interoperable technologies that help reduce unnecessary vendor dependency. Alien wavelengths run on existing line systems, whoever built them, and SD-WAN Director’s open REST APIs let providers fold automated provisioning and billing into their existing operations and billing systems.
