DarkStar^® Products

Lighting the path to network independence

The DarkStar^® DXM allows enterprises to take advantage of the dark fiber already in the ground, enabling incredible bandwidth for inter-campus and campus-datacenter links with unrivaled ease of use and value.

Systems-Oriented Network Vision

XKL’s guiding philosophy is to develop products that fit into an over arching systems-oriented vision of the network. At the earliest stages of product development, XKL engineers perform extensive network modeling, develop a comprehensive architecture, settle on a specific implementation of that architecture, and — most importantly — validate that implementation through exhaustive simulation.

Next Generation Products

A fundamental XKL design tenet is that the equipment used in the development of a reliable Internet must ride on a simple, easy-to-understand software platform. XKL architecture puts that belief into practice by organizing key functions into simplified processes or tasks that are often relegated to separate hardware units to perform. If a particular process fails, it can be easily identified and addressed. This rational approach is replicated throughout the architecture, supporting the twin goals of creating cost-effective systems that exhibit very high reliability.