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The 3 R’s of EFM: Reach, Rate and Reliability

Actelis Networks® Carrier Ethernet over Copper™ solutions exploit the combination of our patented EFMplus™ technology with the industry’s Ethernet standards, including IEEE 802.3ah Ethernet in the First Mile, to deliver superior high bandwidth Ethernet services over existing copper infrastructure. Our solutions make it possible for both service providers and enterprises to leverage Ethernet’s inherent economies of scale to deliver affordable next-generation broadband services. With the help of Actelis’ innovative technologies, which leverage our advances in spectral management, service providers can deploy the ‘3 R’s of EFM,’ or what we refer to as increasing the “Rate, Reach, and Reliability” of their access services to deliver fiber-like performance over copper.

The alternatives of installing fiber or deploying wireless solutions are often not feasible for cost-effective high bandwidth services, and this accounts for the vast majority of business premises, mobile base stations and towers, DSLAM cabinets, as well as sites in education, health care, and municipalities. Trenching fiber to these sites is both expensive and time consuming, while wireless alternatives such as WiMAX can not deliver on the required bandwidth, Quality of Service (QoS), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

Key Markets
The world has adopted Ethernet for next-generation services, but some of the greatest opportunities like in backhaul and in the Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs), including education, health care and government sectors which require fast and affordable broadband access from large numbers of distributed sites. One of the largest drivers for carrier Ethernet over copper comes from mobile backhaul. Existing backhaul networks based on T1 and E1 circuits are running out of capacity and becoming prohibitively expensive. Additionally, mobile operators are under intense pressure to increase available bandwidth for emerging 4G services while maintaining competitive pricing. For this reason, all major mobile operators are planning to migrate their data and video backhaul to carrier Ethernet—and in most cases over copper. This represents an enormous opportunity for service providers, given that most cellular base stations are within reach of the copper infrastructure, especially with the help of Actelis’ unique EFMplus™ and EFM XR239 repeater technologies.

Actelis’ EFM 2BaseTL standard technology provides greater than a 10-fold speed increase per copper pair, when compared with legacy T1/E1 solutions.  While T1s are physically limited to a bit rate of 768 Kbps per copper pair, the new standard defines transceivers (or PHYs) supporting bit rates in excess of 10 Mbps per pair. All existing users of T1s and E1s can exploit these massive price/performance gains by migrating their networks to carrier Ethernet over copper solutions including many sites in education, health care, and among Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs), as well as many DSLAM cabinets.

Actelis Carrier Ethernet over Copper Solutions
Actelis offers a wide range of product configurations that support both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint configurations over one to 16 pairs of voice-grade copper. Actelis’ products fully comply with the IEEE 802.3ah Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) and ITU-T G.998 standards, and are powered by Actelis' patented award-winning EFMplus™ technology that provides great Rate, Reach, and Reliability

Actelis Networks Technology
Actelis Networks patented bonded copper technology increases the achievable performance by implementing a “system-level” approach through an intricate system of hardware, software, and algorithms that interact with the modems and coordinates their behavior. Although the patented EFMplus™ technology is unique to Actelis, Actelis products are fully compliant with all applicable standards (IEEE, MEF, ITU-T, ANSI, ETSI, and others) with proven multi-vendor interoperability.