Ekinops today unveiled wave bonding technology, which the company says overcomes the three barriers to 40G adoption – cost, performance, and spectral efficiency. The 40G functionality will be available in early 2009 in the Ekinops flagship 360 platform.
The first application of the technology will multiplex four 10G payloads onto a 40G wavelength. Wave Bonding will allow Ekinops to achieve up to 320 channels, all in the C-Band spectrum, at 10G.
Other 40G systems don’t transmit as far as 10G systems, requiring customers who want to evolve to 40G over longer links to deploy regeneration equipment. Ekinops’ Wave Bonding technology, however, can reach hundreds of kilometers with no in-line amplification and a total distance of 2,000 kilometers with full channel counts on the Ekinops 360 transport system.
“The problem with 40G is that it hasn’t been cost-effective until now,” said Rob Adams, vice president of global marketing for Ekinops. “40G transmission systems have been much more costly than the comparable equipment to deliver four 10G channels, and haven’t offered the same performance. So there has been no real benefit in making the move to 40G. Ekinops has solved both those problems with our Wave Bonding technology.”
