DarkStar Literature

Lighting the path to network independence

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Datasheets

DarkStar Technology

Overview

XKL’s DarkStar product line, led by the flagship DXM Optical Transport System, is designed to allow enterprises to easily and cost-effectively build private optical networks with massive bandwidth, giving an alternative to the traditional solution of using expensive carrier services. The benefits of this approach include higher reliability, reduced cost and power and more control over IT resources.

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DXM

Optical Transports

XKL’s DarkStar DXM product line is a Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) solution that enables massive bandwidth in enterprise optical networking. Operating your own optical network is made easy with DarkStar DXM systems.






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DBC

Optical Combiners

DarkStar Band Combiners are available in 4-port and 6-port configurations. These devices combine or add/drop DXM 10-channel bands, 40 total channels per dark fiber pair today. The DBCs and DBCd are both designed to combine up to 60 total channels per dark fiber pair to accomodate future DXM optical transport systems.



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DRA & DBA

Amplifiers

Connect DXM optical transport systems with any mix of traffic, such as 1 and 10 gigabit ethernet, OC48/OC192, or fibre channel, separated by up to 2000km. Grow metro networks into regional networks easily and economically. Rest easy with carrier-class redundancy and extreme reliability.




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Literature

Private networks: the diY solution

XKL periodically contributes to or is the subject of informational articles in regard to lighting dark fiber. Allowing a corporation or institution to build an optical transmission system that is both reliable and easy to operate is a primary goal of the DarkStar® Optical Transport System and supporting product lines. These articles explain the rationale, economics, and process of building this optical transmission system and lighting dark fiber.


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Corporations can now leverage bandwidth bounty

The advent of economical dark fiber in metropolitan areas throughout the world and cost-effective, easy-to-use optical transport equipment built for the enterprise requirements has challenged this paradigm. Organizations now can easily justify a private optical network to connect locations in metro and regional areas thanks to the benefits available bandwidth and lowered network costs provide.


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