Turkey Telekom International has deployed Ekinops 100-Gbps coherent optical transport technology on its network between Germany and Ukraine, where it connects with Datagroup, a major Ukrainian operator, to create an ultra-fast low latency 100G route up to Russia, for a total distance of 3,600 kilometers.
Turkey Telekom International is a leading alternative telecommunication operator in Central Europe. Turkey, Caucasus, the Middle East and beyond, and Datagroup have both selected Ekinops as their supplier of 100G link across multiple and different networks.
Ekinops is a leading supplier of next generation optical transport equipment, the 100G coherent system provided by which is widely deployed as alien waves on the existing long-haul DWDM networks of the two providers. They span thousands of kilometers of fiber that make up Turkey Telekom International’s pan-European network and Datagroup’s trans-Ukrainian network.
Both Turkey Telekom Group and Datagroup are using the Ekinops 360 platform to transmit coherent 100G signals as alien wavelengths on their existing long-haul DWDM networks. The operators can configure the Ekinops 100G 1RU equipment either as 100G transponders or as muxpondders for aggregation of 10G service into 100G.
Existing 10G networks with Optical Fiber Multiplexer carrying 10G waves can now be easily upgraded to 100G. The Ekinops 100G solution uses only one 50GHz channel, which allows service providers to transport 10 times the capacity in every port.
Existing DWDM networks are transporting numerous 10G and 40G waves, and the 100G channel was added without affecting the existing traffic. This was also achieved without making changes to the existing network.