Your line system is filling up, and your original vendor either can’t deliver the capacity you need in time, faces regulatory barriers, or wants to charge millions to rebuild the whole thing. This is the brownfield problem. Real infrastructure is already in the ground, real traffic is already running on it, and a capacity wall is coming regardless of budget. Alien Wavelengths solve this problem without touching what’s already there. A high-capacity coherent channel from Ekinops is carried on your existing line system, whoever built it, live in minutes, with zero disruption to the traffic already running.
Running out of capacity on an existing line system raises several issues network architects may have to face:
”The additional network capacity has future-proofed our network substantially to match bandwidth requirements.”
An alien wavelength is a DWDM optical channel generated by Ekinops line cards and injected directly onto a line system, amplifiers, multiplexers, or ROADMs, supplied by a different vendor. It’s the right fit when your existing network is out of capacity, and your original supplier is too expensive, too slow to deliver, or simply doesn’t offer the data rates you need, from 100G to 800G.
No. Ekinops coherent line cards include dynamic power control and precise spectral shaping to avoid interfering with adjacent channels. A design and simulation tool also validates the link budget offline before deployment, so the new channel integrates without interrupting service already in production.
Through a 10 Mbps management channel carried in-band within the optical signal itself. A single administrative connection at your local site is enough to control, monitor, and troubleshoot the remote equipment end to end through Ekinops network management platform.
A full line-system replacement means writing off equipment that still works, paying for capacity across the whole network even where it isn’t needed yet, and absorbing the professional-services cost and downtime risk of a large migration. An alien wavelength adds capacity only on the specific spans that are actually saturated, using the infrastructure you’ve already paid for everywhere else. That’s typically a 30% to 50% reduction in capacity-expansion costs compared with a full upgrade.
Almost certainly. While each network has to be evaluated independently, Ekinops alien wavelengths have been deployed successfully on virtually every major line-system vendor, and on both terrestrial and submarine networks, so you’re not limited by the underlying infrastructure.
Replacing several aging 10G circuits with a single high-capacity coherent channel frees up ports on your existing multiplexers or couplers. Those freed ports can now be used for additional channels, and the 10G optics can then be redeployed elsewhere on the network.
