Aktino today introduced a repeater for its industry-leading bonded copper equipment that doubles the reach of high-bandwidth backhaul and Ethernet services capacity, enabling bandwidth of more than 50 Mbps over eight copper pairs to as far as 24,000 feet from the central office.

Simply by placing the Aktino repeater at the midpoint of the span, ILECs can bring much higher bandwidths to remote copper-fed DSLAMs, cell sites, and business customers.

The repeater, available later this summer, allows carriers to serve a footprint far larger than the typical 12,000-foot-radius Carrier Serving Area (CSA), the standard reference for copper-based services. It broadens the effective CSA from a circle of 16 square miles to a circle of 64 square miles, a four-fold increase.

With the new repeater, Aktino has further established itself as the leader in delivering high bandwidth Carrier Ethernet and broadband services over bonded copper. The company is able to deliver such high bandwidth throughout the CSA by using its signature asymmetric transmission, coupled with its industry-leading MIMO on DMT technology for high per-pair bandwidth. The asymmetric approach - unique to Aktino - enables carriers to tailor their bandwidth to customer needs, and with the new repeater, the reach of that bandwidth is vastly expanded.

“Typically, as you extend reach, the per-pair bandwidth rate decreases, but with the new Aktino repeater, this effect is mitigated,” said Lonnie Martin, CEO of Aktino. “This makes it possible for service providers to implement a network-wide service delivery strategy, rather than be limited to the traditional CSA service territory.”