Optical transport for every generation

Carrier-grade WDM transport for access, metro, long-haul, and submarine networks.
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Why implement the Telco Standard Platform?

Ekinops Telco Standard platform is a field-proven solution that has reliably served network operators of all types around the globe for over two decades.  Its ‘evergreen’ technology and modular design provides the ability to evolve and adapt to new networking technologies giving Ekinops customers the platform they need in their continual race to modernize their optical transport infrastructure.  Learn how you can benefit too.

  • Edge to Core Transport Networks

    Use a single optical transport platform for all connectivity applications whether you are a datacenter interconnecting a campus over short distances or a national backbone provider.
  • Wavelengths for Datacenters

    Use the C700HC chassis to extend service provider networks into the datacenter for wavelength services delivery to end-user customers.
  • Automated Commissioning and Service Activation

    Make the lives of your field technicians easier. Ekinops auto-commissioning tool reduces turn up time from days or weeks to hours. Remote NOC service configuration speeds time to revenue.
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What's behind the platform

8G to 800G in one chassis

  • The same chassis accommodates everything from low-speed client access modules to the highest-capacity coherent transport cards, covering line rates from 8G to 800G.
  • Proprietary coherent optical technology, designed in-house to provide superior performance at any given line rate. This approach allows Ekinops better control over its product development and supply chain, de-risking continued innovation.
  • Powered by FlexRate™ coherent technology with adjustable line rates to deliver programmable speeds from 100G to 800G per wavelength, adapting automatically to distance and fiber conditions, terrestrial or submarine, up to 10,000 km.
  • Transmits bidirectionally on a single fiber strand at speeds on all line cards up to 800G, effectively doubling capacity on fiber routes that are already full.
  • Micro-OTN switch matrix aggregates multiple protocols directly onto existing OTN network cores eliminating the need for back-to-back transponder termination.
Front view of Ekinops’ Telco Standard Platform with modular optical line terminal cards and fiber optic connectivity ports.
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FAQ

Find your answer to common questions on Ekinops Telco Standard Platform.

The Telco Standard platform’s ‘evergreen’ design supports multiple technology generations in the same shelf. Most chassis are designed with highly interconnected backplanes that lock it in to only supporting a subset of the total solution portfolio leaving you to mix and match pieces to get what you need. It also includes the award-winning C700HC chassis that supports all the same line cards, software and management as the other chassis in the platform allowing service providers to elegantly extend their existing networks into datacenter environments.

FlexRate™ is Ekinops programmable coherent optics technology. Instead of a fixed speed per card, multiple line rates are selectable to deliver the best possible performance, from 100G to 800G per wavelength, for the specific distance and fiber conditions of your link.

Yes. The same chassis and card architecture cover metro, regional, long-haul, and submarine applications, so a network built for metro today can extend to longer routes later using the same platform family rather than a different one.

Often, yes, through Alien Wavelength support. Ekinops coherent channels can be injected directly onto many existing third-party optical line systems, adding capacity without replacing your existing filtering or routing infrastructure.

Yes. It shares the same Celestis NMS management suite and card architecture as Ekinops other optical platforms, including the compact modular platform built for data center, so you can manage a mixed deployment from one console.

Yes. Celestis NMS connects to the optical nodes via SNMP and exposes an open Northbound Interface (NBI) supporting REST and SNMPv2c/SNMPv3 APIs, so you can integrate optical alarms and provisioning workflows into your own orchestrators or existing operations and billing platforms, rather than being limited to Celestis NMS as a standalone tool.  Optional Kafka Queue functionality Kafka provides reliable messaging and streaming capabilities crucial for modern data architectures and real-time data processing applications.

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