XKL
American company that develops optical transport network technologies
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XKL, LLC is an American company that develops optical transport networking technologies.[1] Founded in 1991 and based in Redmond, Washington, XKL is led by Cisco Systems co-founder Len Bosack.
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Telecommunications Optical networking Computer Networking |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Founder | Len Bosack |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Len Bosack and Sandra Lerner |
| Products | Darkstar Optical Network Hardware |
| Website | www |
History of XKL
Products
Current products
Products include transponder, muxponder, mux/demux (multiplexing/demultiplexing) and (optical) amplifier models.
DarkStar DQT10 Transponder
Supports 12, 24 or 36 10G channels.
DarkStar DQT100 Transponder
Aggregates up to 96 100G channels onto a single pair of fibers.
DarkStar DQT400 Transponder
Aggregates up to 48 100G / 400G channels
DarkStar DQM100 Muxponder
Aggregates up to 12 100G channels via statistical multiplexing.
DarkStar DQM10 Muxponder
Aggregates up to 36 10G channels.
DarkStar DSM10-10 Muxponder
Aggregates up to 100G services.
DarkStar DXM
First released in 2007, the Darkstar DXM is a high-performance optical switch first installed at the California Institute of Technology as part of their Supercomputing Bandwidth Challenge. It provides 5 times the bandwidth, in excess of 100 Gigabits/sec, than the existing system but is also smaller and uses less power.[3]
Historical products
TOAD-1
The TOAD-1 System, also known as TD-1,[notes 1] was announced in 1993 and built as an extended version of the DECSYSTEM-20 from Digital Equipment Corporation. The original inspiration was to build a desktop version of the popular PDP-10 and the name began as an acronym for "Ten On A Desk". It was eventually built at XKL by veteran engineers from Cisco, DEC, Hewlett-Packard, and CDC.[4]
It was the first XKL product produced and it became available for purchase in late 1995. The TOAD-1 is a high-performance I/O oriented system with a 36-bit processor running TOPS-20. It is multi-user system that can provide service to over 100 users at a time. The TOAD-1 architecture incorporates modern peripherals, and open bus architecture, expanded physical and virtual memory while maintaining the TOPS-20 user environment.[1]
TOAD-2
The TOAD-2 was built to replace the TOAD-1. It is a single chip reimplementation used as redundant control processors in networking equipment from XKL. It can be configured for TOPS-20 timesharing.[4]
See also
Other companies that produced PDP-10 compatible computers:
Notes
- The TOAD-1 was referred to as the TOAD as a development codename and then changed to the TD-1 as the original marketing name. It was then switched back to TOAD-1 before production began.