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.
Optical Networking Systems
DXM10-10
XKL’s top–end networking system provides 100Gbps metro transport with 10 "10G" (10 Gigabit Ethernet, 10G Fibre Channel, OC192)
waves per 1RU system over dark fiber.
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DSM10-10
The option is yours, power your own metro fiber-optic network from 10Gbps to 100Gbps and leave room to grow. Employing 10 small form factor (SFP+) modules that can range from “1G” to “10G”
(10 Gigabit Ethernet, 10G Fibre Channel, OC48/OC192) waves, all in an elegant 1 RU package.
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DXM10-4
Our mid–level networking system provides 40Gbps of metro transport with 4 "10G" (10 Gigabit Ethernet, 10G Fibre Channel, OC192) waves
per 1RU system.
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DSM10-4
Begin small and scale up — 4 ports equal 40Gbps, a cost effective way to power your own metro fiber-optic network. The DSM10-4 is a 1 RU system using 4 small form factor
(SFP+) modules that can be incremented from “1G” to “10G” (10 Gigabit Ethernet, 10G Fibre Channel, OC48/OC192) waves.
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DXM10-2
The introductory networking system provides 20Gbps of metro transport with 2 "10G" (10 Gigabit Ethernet, 10G Fibre Channel, OC192) waves per
1RU system.
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DSM10-2
The most cost-effective product to power your own metro fiber-optic network. The DSM10-2 utilizes 2 small form factor (SFP+) modules that can range from “1G” to “10G”
(10 Gigabit Ethernet, 10G Fibre Channel, OC192) waves in an efficiently simple 1RU system.
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Band Combiner Devices
DBC
Allows scaling to 40 channels today (60 channels in the near future) on a single fiber pair by combining signals from up to 4 DarkStar systems, providing up to 400Gbps of transport.
DarkStar Band Combiners are available in 4–port and 6–port configurations. DBCs devices are used for single-path combination of bands on a point–to–point fiber topology. DBCd
devices are used for dual–path combination of bands (east and west) on a ring or linear add/drop fiber topology.
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In-Line Amplification Systems
DRA & DBA-L
Connect DXM optical networking systems with any mix of traffic separated by up to 2,000 km. Grow metro networks into regional networks easily and economically. Control with familiar
command line interface and integrated network management using standard TCP/IP protocols. Rest easy with carrier–class redundancy and extreme reliability.
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