Tackle Your Exact Challenges
XKL’s comprehensive approach as a vendor simplifies network design, operation, configuration, and deployment through end-to-end optical support and hardware built for your needs. The wrong vendor drags your team into battles they can’t win: frequent recurring costs that skyrocket TCO, hardware provider lock-in, and complex systems with an impossible learning curve.
Explore our DWDM technologies to understand where our optical experts can support your network’s evolution.
Our optical hardware is built for your toughest problems.
Challenge: Meet Your Growing End User Connectivity Needs
Faced with an opportunity to drive AI development in academia, a major research university needed to grow its backbone capacity. Fast. They turned to XKL’s partnership to guide their first-time DWDM system deployment with multiple 100G links.
Three months after the discovery call, the institute’s network team unboxed their new hardware to support an AI DCI; their backbone was AI-ready.
Overbuilt DWDM gear limits control over network upgrades through hidden costs in time and money. Operators shoulder the burden of inflated OPEX fees (licensing, port activation) and other costs from generic, high-footprint systems. Excessive hardware that exceeds actual customer needs trickles down into slower upgrades.
XKL delivers affordable capacity with stackable expansion capabilities built into our hardware, so you can choose when to ramp. Lean into architected solutions that allow you to move more quickly and economically within our consultative purchasing process.
Cost Efficiencies
Push network upgrades through easily with industry-low TCO, OPEX built into process.
Pay As You Grow
Scale when needed with additional circuits & up to 400G bandwidth for capacity planning.
Full Network Control
Decisions behind expansion are driven by your terms and timeline, not vendor packages.
Solution Features |
Description |
Client Capacity |
4 x 100G & 2 x 400G |
Line-Side Capacity |
3 x 400G |
Expansion Capability |
36 x 400G or 144 x 100G |
Footprint |
1 RU |
OTDR |
Fiber Break Detection |
Power supply & Fans |
Hot swappable & 1+1 redundant |
BERT |
Fiber Plant Assessment Tool (built-in) |
Hardware Security |
Data Plane and Control Plane designed for added security |
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