Fruitful cooperation of the two leading European providers efficiently addresses the needs of German operators for open fibre-optic solutions Kranj, Slovenia, and Berlin, Germany, 6 December 2022 – S&T Iskratel, the leading European broadband-solutions provider, and AVM, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of products for broadband connections and the digital home, today announced they have successfully achieved interoperability of S&T Iskratel’s XGS-PON Optical Line Terminals (OLTs) with AVM’s FRITZ!Box, an integrated access device with built-in XGS-PON frontend. The two major European vendors joined forces again with their flagship XGS-PON products,…
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Broadband boost for small and medium MDUs across Europe and North America as InCoax unveils its D2501
Operators will be able to extend XGS-PON or Active Ethernet fiber and manage services through existing customer provisioning systems thanks to the use of established industry standards and protocols Lund, Sweden, 21 September 2021: Following the release of InCoax D2501, which was unveiled at this year’s Broadband Forum’s UFBB Virtual Conference, Multi-Gigabit and Gigabit symmetrical broadband services in small and mid-sized Multi-Dwelling Units (MDUs) are now possible. Operators and service providers across Europe and North America will more easily be able to extend fiber GPON, XG-PON, XGS-PON and Active Ethernet…
Read MoreIskratel and Ulysse Group unite to deliver 10-gigabit fibre broadband connectivity to Belgium
Iskratel will provide a complete XGS-PON access solution to connect residential and enterprise users in Liège Kranj, Slovenia, 8 December 2020 – Iskratel, a leading European broadband solutions provider and Belgian service provider Ulysse Group, have partnered to deploy an ultra-fast fibre-optic broadband network in Liège, Belgium. The broadband network will provide services to thousands of residential and enterprise users in Belgium, with Iskratel providing a complete XGS-PON access solution including Optical Line Terminals (OLTs) and Customer-Premises Equipment (CPE). Iskratel will supply its SI3000 Lumia XG8 compact 1U XGS-PON OLTs,…
Read MoreCo-existence is key to a cost-effective next-gen PON migration, says Iskratel
Valencia, Spain, 13 February 2018 – Operators looking to unleash the full potential of next-generation PON technologies such as XGS-PON and NG-PON2 should wisely consider a period of co-existence between PON generations to ensure a gradual migration with minimum service disruption, Iskratel’s CTO said today. Speaking on the opening day of FTTH Conference, Damjan Slapar highlighted how operators could miss out on introducing revenue-generating applications if they don’t upgrade their networks and take advantage of next-generation PON capabilities, including increased symmetrical bandwidth and flexible wavelength plans. But, he warned, operators…
Read MoreXGS-PON interoperability advances after second Plugfest
LAN-hosted event in Tauxigny, France, brought together 13 companies Tauxigny, France, November 13, 2017: Leading industry names from across the globe came together to accelerate the development of PON technology at the second XGS-PON Interoperability Plugfest. XGS-PON is based on the ITU-T’s latest Recommendation (ITU-T G.9807.1), providing a symmetrical 10Gbit/s capability over a fiber infrastructure that can co-exist with legacy 2.5Gbit/s G-PON. Organized by Laboratoire des Applications Numériques (LAN), in collaboration with the Full Service Access Network (FSAN) Group and the Broadband Forum, this year’s Plugfest focused on interoperability between…
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