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 ProductsVideo delivery specialist Harmonic has added new fibre optic-related features to its cloud-native CableOS™ cable access solution. The new version includes both containerised DOCSIS CMTS and PON applications, and is designed to enable converged delivery of broadband-over-cable and FTTH services. The improved CableOS solution takes advantage of cloud-native technology to support converged DOCSIS CMTS and […]
Technologies and ProductsADTRAN, a provider of next-generation open networking and subscriber experience solutions, has announced that its Total Access 5000 (TA 5000) platform has been deployed to improve the reliability and resiliency of a leading regional utility’s high-density Smart Grid power grid distribution network. A first deployment of its kind, the utility is leveraging the TA 5000 […]
News and BusinessOptical Transport to boom too According to a newly published report by Dell’Oro Group the worldwide PON market will grow to over $7 billion by 2022. Next-generation PON technologies, including 10 Gbits/s EPON, XGS-PON, and NG-PON2, will drive all of the increase, growing at a Compounded Annual Growth Rate of almost 40% from 2017 to 2022. “Where PON […]
News and BusinessCalix, Inc. will partner with innovative Armenian communications service provider Ucom to bring the benefits of NG-PON2 across the country to deliver broadband experience to its wireline and mobile subscribers. With initial trials of Calix AXOS NG-PON2 systems scheduled for early 2017, Ucom will leverage the power of the combined world-class Calix suite of AXOS, […]