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Ekinops Announces Wireless Fronthaul Solution
Ekinops (News - Alert), a leading supplier of next-generation optical network
equipment, today introduced a fronthaul solution that addresses wireless
service providers' urgent need to increase data capacity affordably and
efficiently by taking fiber all the way to the base station.
The Ekinops solution supports both passive and active architectures or
mixed approaches, in which fronthaul and backhaul combine to enable
unprecedented mobile RAN possibilities.
Ekinops addresses the move to radio site densification, driven by data
capacity needs, with its solution, as well as the need for several
different radio frequencies being used at a given site, requiring more
and more radio heads per site. The compact solution, with its low power
requirements, is also designed to limit operational costs and to be
installed quickly, improving mobile operators' time to market.
Ekinops' passive CWDM and DWDM approach operates on a 1RU passive
chassis that can hold various elements such as multiplexers and optical
add/drop multiplexers (OADMs), enabling a vast range of multiplexing
schemes in single or dual fiber configurations.
The active DWDM approach focuses on Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI)
aggregation to allow the use of fewer fibers for greater efficiency in
the optical portion of the network. This approach offers highly flexible
multiplexing capability, with up to 10 aggregation and two line ports.
This active solution isdelivered through Ekinops' C200HC-ETR chassis.
"RAN (Radio Access Network) evolution is driven by both technology and
economics," said Francois Xavier Ollivier, CTO of Ekinops. "We are
seeing the notion of fronthaul as complementary to legacy backhaul
continue to evolve. We believe that gradually, fronthaul and backhaul
will mix in order to optimize the mobile access network architecture."
Addressing radio sites of different capacities, the Ekinops solution is
industrial temperature range capable, from -40°C to 85°C. It supports a
broad range of client interface and line interface protocols. In a mixed
fronthaul-backhaul scenario, it can transport legacy Ethernet backhaul
traffic from already deployed base stations with Ethernet aggregating
muxponders and transport fronthaul CPRI traffic. It also has a number of
supervisory and management options.
For mobile synchronization, the chassis' Sync-E port allows for carrying
the frequency synchronization - required for 2G to 4G standards - in
packet-based backhaul network. Advanced features also meet the
synchronization requirements of other protocols.
About Ekinops
Ekinops is a leading supplier of next generation optical transport
equipment for telecommunications service providers. The Ekinops 360
addresses Metro, Regional, and Long-Haul applications with a single,
highly-integrated platform. Ekinops is a market-leading innovator in
100G transport with a coherent line of products that truly optimizes
optical networks and comes in 1RU, 2RU or 7RU chassis. The Ekinops 360
relies on the highly-programmable Ekinops T-Chip® (Transport-on-a-Chip)
architecture that enables fast, flexible and cost-effective delivery of
new services for high-speed, high-capacity transport. Using the Ekinops
360 carrier-grade system, operators can simply increase capacity of
their networks - CWDM, DWDM, Ethernet, ESCON, Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH,
and uncompressed video (HD-SDI, SD-SDI, ASI). Ekinops is headquartered
in Lannion, France, and Ekinops Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary, is
incorporated in the USA.
Mnemonic code: EKI Number of shares: 5,389,290 For more
information, visit www.ekinops.net
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