PETALUMA, CA— May 18, 2010—Calix
(NYSE: CALX) today announced that Indiana communications service provider Smithville Telephone Company (Smithville)
has selected the Calix Unified Access
portfolio to bring fiber access solutions to approximately 34,000 homes and
businesses across the communities it serves. The company plans to move "Fiber
Forward," replacing its aging copper infrastructure with an advanced,
standards-based fiber access network engineered to deliver between 100 megabits
per second (Mbps) to one gigabit per second (Gbps) to every premises. The $128
million initiative, the value of which includes plant engineering, materials,
labor, and other costs including access equipment, is composed of a $90 million
dollar Rural Utilities Service (RUS) loan complemented by a $38 million
Broadband Stimulus award funded through the Broadband Initiative Program (BIP).
Scheduled to complete in 2013, thousands of homes and businesses in
Smithville's service area have already been installed during the initial phases
of this project, and are benefiting from advanced IPTV, ultra-high-speed data
services, and reliable voice services delivered via gigabit passive optical
networking (GPON) and Active Ethernet (AE) technologies across the Calix Unified
Access Infrastructure.
"As we considered the
increasing demand for high-bandwidth broadband services as well as the economic
development needs of the communities in our service areas, moving 'Fiber
Forward' was the right thing to do," said Darby McCarty, CEO of Smithville. "Not
only can we use this network to deliver world-class information, communication,
and entertainment services to our residential and business subscribers, but we
can also dramatically reduce our long-term operational costs – which is critical
as we adapt our business model to reflect both a changing regulatory
environment and increasing competition. The Calix Unified Access portfolio
provides us with the tools we need to delight our customers efficiently and
cost-effectively, and we look forward to the completion of this project when
every Smithville subscriber will have access to the power of fiber."
Smithville is Indiana's largest independent operating company (IOC). This project, one of the largest of
its kind in the country, is being driven by emerging consumer demands,
heightening competition, and a desire to provide subscribers with an
infrastructure that can support the advanced broadband services of today and
tomorrow while lowering ongoing operational costs. The access equipment portion
of this project is being built with the Calix Unified Access portfolio,
including the Calix C7
Multiservice Access Platform (MSAP), the E7 Ethernet Service
Access Platform (ESAP), the 700GX/700GE ONT portfolio,
and Calix Management System (CMS)
to deliver a variety of services, from advanced IPTV to business services. Calix Compatible
partners like Cisco are also providing key components of the overall solution,
delivering IPTV middleware and set-top boxes.
For a video tutorial of
the scope, vision, and subscriber experience of the Smithville initiative,
please click on any one of the seven educational videos available at the
following link: http://www.smithville.net/fiber/why.
"Smithville stands out
among a growing cadre of North American communications service providers who
have both staked out a bold fiber access vision for the communities that they
serve and aligned the resources necessary to bring this vision to fruition,"
said John Colvin, vice president of field operations at Calix. "Leveraging both
existing government loan programs (RUS) and Stimulus funds from the BIP, the
scope and scale of Smithville's investment in its community will forever change
the face of communications in southern Indiana. Calix is proud to be a key
strategic partner to Smithville in helping to make this broadband vision of the
future a reality."
About Calix
Calix
is a leading provider in North America of broadband communications access
systems and software for copper- and fiber- based network architectures that
enable communications service providers to connect to their residential and
business subscribers. Calix has shipped over six million ports of its Unified
Access Infrastructure portfolio to more than 500 North American and
international customers, whose networks serve over 32 million subscriber lines
in total.
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this press release. Additional information on potential factors that could
affect Calix's results and other risks and uncertainties are detailed in its
Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 27, 2010, filed with the
SEC on May 7, 2010, available at http://www.sec.gov.
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