Iskratel is the Gold Sponsor of this year’s ECEBE event, the 21st East and Central European Broadband Expo, taking place in Budapest from October 17th to 18th. The leading European ICT vendor and provider will be attending the expo together with its partner for the hungarian market HFC Technics.

Iskratel successfully implemented its new Internet of Things (IoT)-based Incident-Response Management (IRM) for Slovenian Railways. The IoT-based solution has already prevented four potential rail incidents in Slovenia earlier this year.

Iskratel will host the first existing Factory of the Year award ceremony, awarding the best production company in Slovenia in 2018. Currently there are 14 finalists competing for the title. The winner of the Factory of the Year award will be announced by the event's organizer, Finance, in Iskratel on October 10.

Iskratel, d.o.o., Kranj is the lead partner in the project entitlet 5G Enabled Public Safety Services and Applications (the English acronym 5G Safety). 5GSafety is unique in bringing together a winning ecosystem of Slovenian 5G PPDR players to address realistic challenges and expectations and consequently ensure the success and sustainability of the project. In addition to the lead partner 5G Safety Consortium brings together partners Telekom Slovenije d.d., Faculty for electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana and OSI d.o.o. that are leading players in research, innovation and technology provisioning in 5G, public safety, security and other fields of the ICT sector, and a number of key Slovenian PPDR stakeholders supporting this project or being active members in the Advisory Board.

Speaking on the opening day of ANGA COM, Iskratel’s Strategic and Business Development Director has today cautioned operators against simply looking at the price tag of equipment, warning that cheaper items could end up costing between 300% and 800% more than the initial capex saving.

One of the leading Central European cable and satellite service providers has successfully completed the testing of a hybrid last-mile broadband solution jointly provided by Iskratel and Teleste, a specialist in broadband video and data communication systems and services.

Iskratel announces its Innbox G108 home gateway is being used in a next-generation PON trial by one of the leading major Tier-1 operators involved in the ONF CORD^® (Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter^®) project.

Iskratel is delighted to announce that its NG-PON solution and coexistence proposition have been recognised by GlobalData, a leading provider of market intelligence for global IT and telecom professionals. According to GlobalData, the solution demonstrates Iskratel's ongoing ability to differentiate in the evolving FTTH/PON market.

Operators should avoid blindly implementing off-the-shelf automation solutions if they want to see significant reductions in their Operational Expense (OpEx), Iskratel’s CTO has warned.

Speaking on the opening day of the FTTH Conference, Iskratel’s CTO warned operators that they must consider a period of co-existence in order to unlock the full potential of next-generation PON technologies such as XGS-PON and NG-PON2.