Technologies and ProductsS&T Iskratel has unveiled its Innbox X24 (pictured), a multi-gigabit XGS-PON ONT that offers symmetrical upstream and downstream data rates of 10 Gbps. At the same time, the company also launched the Iskratel Innbox M92, an EasyMesh™ compliant mesh Wi-Fi 6 access point that extends the availability of bandwidth-consuming services over the air with multi-gigabit […]
News and BusinessZzoomm, a UK full fibre operator, has announced Slovenia-based Iskratel as its latest technology partner in delivering FTTP broadband to millions of UK residents. In ramping up its fibre roll-out to hundreds of communities across the UK, broadband ISP Zzoomm will utilise Iskratel’s complete XGS-PON access solution including Optical Line Terminals and Optical Network Terminals. […]
Technologies and ProductsICT provider Iskratel, has debuted its SI3000 Lumia C16 Optical Network Terminal and Optical Line Terminal (ONT / OLT) products and services at the Gigabit Summit in Hessen, Germany. Compactly designed, the SI3000 Lumia C16 is network processor-based, meaning that the functions and performance parameters can be set in microcode, allowing for a high level […]
News and BusinessIThousands of residents in the highest city in the world are to receive a fibre broadband connection thanks to the deployment of a GPON broadband network from European broadband access provider Iskratel. In collaboration with its Latin-American partner Teleserv Group Bolivia, and at more than 4,000 metres above sea level, Iskratel is implementing the new, […]
Technologies and ProductsIskratel has released its SI3000 Lumia XG8, a compact, eight-port XGS-PON Optical Line Terminal (OLT), optimised for smaller fibre-access deployments in residential, business and backhaul use cases.Supporting any service delivery model in single or multi-provider environments, the compact XGS-PON OLT allows operators to virtualise the network without hardware replacement. Therefore, operators can skip an entire […]
News and BusinessAustrian IT company S&T AG has acquired the Iskratel Group, best known for its PON technology, for €37.5 million. The transaction is scheduled to close in autumn 2020, once all the official approvals have been obtained. S&T AG is a leading supplier of communications systems in Central and Eastern Europe. The S&T AG group employs […]
Technologies and ProductsIskratel has launched its XGS-PON Optical Line Terminal (OLT) blade for its broadband-access product SI3000 Lumia, offering a multitude of access technologies. Fully equipped with XGS-PON blades, Iskratel’s single SI3000 Lumia XGS-PON OLT can serve up to 32,678 users from the same MEC chassis. The new four-port XGS-PON OLT blades in MEC chassis support full […]
News and BusinessIskratel, is to provide active and passive telecommunications equipment for the construction of an ultra-fast fibre-optic (XGS-PON and GPON) broadband network in 210 municipalities as part of the RUNE (Rural Network) project, with its partners Rune Enia in Slovenia and Rune Crow in Croatia. As part of the three-year project, 233,000 households in 165 Slovenian […]
News and BusinessSlovenia-based European ICT provider Iskratel, PJSC Ukrtelecom and SID Bank, have signed an agreement to build a GPON fibre-optic Internet network to connect the rural areas of Ukraine. The two-year network construction project, which has had a total investment of almost UAH200 million (US$7.5 million), will connect more than 200 localities in 13 Ukrainian regions, […]
Applications and ResearchBroadband access provider Iskratel, is claiming an important milestone in enabling operators to deploy carrier-grade, with its virtualised PON solutions by launching a complete, integrated Software-Defined PON (SD-PON) solution, leveraging Radisys’ SD-PON framework for broadband access disaggregation. Based on open-community initiatives and the Open Networking Foundation’s (ONF) CORD® architecture, the SD-PON solution is claimed to […]
News and BusinessIskratel, the Slovenia-headquartered provider of broadband access solutions, is partnering with French telecoms equipment company Telenco Distribution to support its fibre deployment market expansion in France. As part of the new partnership, Telenco Distribution will provide Iskratel’s full range of GPON solutions for future-proof upgrades of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks across France. This will enable […]
Technologies and ProductsBuilding on its SI3000 Lumia G16 compact GPON Optical Line Terminal (OLT), Iskratel’s new dual-nature OLT can operate as a traditional integrated OLT. It also provides a disaggregated white-box solution, based on virtual OLT Hardware Abstraction (vOLTHA) principles. This transforms the Lumia G16 into a fully virtualised, CORD-compliant physical OLT with virtual OLT software running in the cloud via a simple software upgrade, eliminating the need for hardware upgrades when virtualising the central […]
Technologies and ProductsAn unnamed Central European cable and satellite operator has successfully completed testing a hybrid last-mile broadband solution jointly provided by Iskratel and Teleste. Combining Iskratel’s GPON technology with Teleste’s DOCSIS-based mini-CMTS – the DOCSIS Access Hub (DAH), the solution enables the operator to deliver gigabit broadband and new revenue-generating services to its customers. The operator […]
Technologies and ProductsSlovenia-headquartered communications solutions supplier Iskratel has unveiled two new universal next-generation PON solutions – the 8-port multi-PON blade and the 16-port GPON blade. The company says these products are designed to facilitate a profitable and controlled upgrade to next-generation networks, such as NG-PON2 and XGS-PON. The 8-port multi-PON blade simultaneously supports NG-PON2 and XGS-PON technologies, […]