Deutsche Glasfaser (DG), a leading competitive service provider in Germany serving over 1.2 million private household, businesses and public institution customers and adding around 40,000 new homes passed per month, selected Ekinops as a single vendor. DG will deploy the Ekinops360 portfolio across all tiers of its optical transport network including the Core, Aggregation, and Central Office (street cabinet). Ekinops’ FlexRate™ 100G to 400G coherent solutions are being introduced with its advanced colorless and gridless ROADM architecture. Enhanced by Celestis NMS management system to provide flexibility, ease-of-use and the seamless support of Alien wavelength services. Ekinops ETR (Extended Temperature Range) solutions are being deployed in central offices to extend capacity as close to the customer as possible and support the deployment of 10Gbps XGS-PON access technology as standard across DG’s network.
Ekinops is also providing a full suite of professional services to assist DG in optimizing its network deployment. This includes whole scope of works from site surveys to equipment installation and commissioning.
“As pioneers of fiber rollout in Germany we have always sought to employ state-of-the-art technology in our network,” commented Pascal Koster, Chief Operating Officer of Deutsche Glasfaser. “The Ekinops360 gives us the ability to streamline our operations with a single end-to-end system that meets our ambitions to be even more efficient and responsive.”
