PETALUMA, CA — August 2, 2010 —
Calix, Inc (NYSE: CALX) today announced that Broadband
Stimulus award winners South Central
Telephone Association (SC Telcom) and Madison
Telephone, LLC (Madison Telephone) have selected the Calix Unified Access portfolio to
address their respective "Fiber Forward" initiatives. Each initiative will
leverage advanced Calix fiber access technologies to deliver a superior broadband
services experience to underdeveloped parts of their respective access
networks. The three separate initiatives awarded to the two companies will
together result in over $13.9 million invested in implementing advanced
broadband services in southern Kansas.
"Access to broadband services is
essential to the sustainability of communities across Kansas and furthering
their economic development," said Steve Davis, general manager of SC Telcom and
a member of the Kansas
Broadband Advisory Task Force. "We felt that in the communities that we
serve, it is imperative that the infrastructure that we choose to deploy be as
'future-proof' as possible. Our subscribers can range from the typical American
small town family to the rancher running live auctions over the Internet, and
with Calix fiber access solutions we know that we can deliver the broadband
experience and competitive edge that our subscribers deserve. We expect these
initiatives to be powerfully transformative to the communities that we are
targeting, and believe Calix has the right portfolio of solutions to assure the
broadband sustainability of these communities for the next decade."
"Even in rural Kansas, it was easy
to see that it's becoming an 'all-video world,' and even easier to realize that
Madison Telephone's aging copper infrastructure wasn't going to allow our
subscribers to change with it," said Mary Meyer, chief executive officer of
Madison Telephone. "Moving 'Fiber Forward' was clearly the right direction to
meet the needs of our community, but we faced the challenge of addressing a
service area with a varied topology, an uneven dispersion of subscribers, and an
overall population density across the service area of less than three
subscribers per square mile. The task was daunting, but Calix provided us with a
fiber solutions portfolio that enabled us to leverage a variety of fiber
technologies – matching the right technology to each deployment scenario – yet
manage it as one network. It's the right network for us, and the right network
for our community."
The rural subscribers included in these three initiatives across
southern Kansas will be served via a combination of fiber access technologies,
including gigabit passive optical network (GPON), Active Ethernet (AE), and ten
gigabit Ethernet (10GE) transport technologies, capable of delivering broadband
speeds to the residence or business of up to one gigabit per second (Gbps).
- South Central will be using its Round 1 Stimulus funds, which consist of an $871
thousand grant and $3.5 million in private funds, to build an advanced GPON
network to rural customers in the Lake City and Sun City, Kansas exchanges. The
network, which will pass predominantly "unserved" residences and
business in the area, will be engineered to enable data rates of over 100
megabits per second (Mbps) as well as reliable voice and business services to
all premises passed. South Central will leverage the
Calix C7
Multiservice Access Platform (MSAP) and a
variety of 700GX/GE
optical network terminals (ONTs) to deliver these
services.
- South
Central will be using its Round 2 Stimulus funds, which consist of a $558
thousand grant, a $560 thousand loan, and $575 thousand in private funds, to
build an advanced AE network in the "underserved" community of Attica, Kansas.
This network too will be engineered to be capable of delivering over 100 Mbps
to every home and business in the community. The
Calix E7 Ethernet
Service Access Platform (ESAP) will be leveraged
along with a variety of 700GX/GE ONTs.
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Madison Telephone, a small family-owned incumbent local exchange carrier located in
southeastern Kansas, will be using its Round 1 Stimulus funds, which consist of
a $3.5 million grant, a $3.5 million loan, and $763 thousand in private
investment for its broadband infrastructure buildout in the Madison and Lamont,
Kansas areas. Balancing the growing bandwidth needs of their community with the
deployment realities of building a network to meet these emerging requirements,
Madison is leveraging two different technologies – Active Ethernet in their
served urban areas and GPON and
Extended Reach GPON
for rural subscribers. Each of these
technologies is being deployed via the Calix E7 ESAP, which is also tying
together their exchanges via 10GE redundant transport. At each subscriber
premises, a Calix 700GX/GE ONT is being deployed that auto-detects the
technology feeding it and provides support for H.248 voice over IP.
With today's announcement, aggregate Calix vendor
selections by Broadband Stimulus award winners for "last mile" Broadband
Initiative Program award has now reached twelve different projects representing
$114 million in Stimulus-related
grants, loans, and private investment for plant engineering, materials, labor,
and other costs, including access equipment.
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 40 million subscriber lines
in total.
This press release may contain
forward-looking statements that are based upon management's current
expectations and are inherently uncertain. Forward-looking statements are based
upon information available to us as of the date of this release and we assume
no obligation to revise or update any such forward-looking statement to reflect
any event or circumstance after the date of this release, except as required by
law. Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from
current expectations, based on risks and uncertainties affecting the Company's
business. The reader is cautioned not to unduly rely on the forward-looking
statements contained in 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 June 26, 2010, filed with the SEC on July 23, 2010,
available at http://www.sec.gov.
Press Contact:
Catherine Koo
415-992-4400
calix@lewispr.com
