XKL WDM platforms ease fear of photons

AUGUST 6, 2007 By Stephen Hardy -- XKL LLC (search for XKL), founded by Cisco co-founder Len Bosack, has taken the wraps off its first product line. The DXM Optical Transport System platforms are designed to allow data network managers who know little or nothing about optical network design to add WDM capabilities to their WANs.

"The problem for a lot of enterprise customers is these guys are perfectly good at running their corporate campus networks and their corporate WAN, but they're terrified of anything optical," said Bosack in an interview last month. "And heaven forefend that they should have to manage something that uses TL1?that's not something that they regard as a positive development."

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