April 20, 2010 — PETALUMA, CA—Calix
(NYSE: CALX) today announced that Northeast
Louisiana Telephone Company, an award winner in Round One of the Broadband
Initiatives Program of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, has
formally selected the Calix Unified
Access portfolio to bring advanced Active Ethernet (AE) solutions to
thousands of premises in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. The company plans to move
"Fiber Forward," replacing its aging copper infrastructure with an advanced,
standards-based fiber access network interconnected via 10 gigabit per second
(Gbps) Ethernet rings. The network is designed to deliver IPTV services,
residential and business data services capable of delivering up to 1 Gbps to
each premises, and reliable voice over IP (VOIP) services, greatly increasing
services capabilities while reducing ongoing maintenance and operational
expenses.
"The Broadband Stimulus program
gave us the opportunity to start with a clean slate and build the network that
would best serve the long term needs of our customers while providing the
operations efficiencies we needed for sustainability," said Mike George,
president and general manager of Northeast Louisiana Telephone Company. "We
knew from the start that Active Ethernet was the technology that we wanted to
deploy – the challenge was finding a solution that offered the modularity,
flexibility, and capacity we needed to balance our service and operational
requirements. The Calix E7 and the extensive Calix ONT portfolio are ideally
suited to our strategic needs, and we look forward to delivering a host of
advanced services to the residents of Morehouse Parish for years to come."
Moving "Fiber Forward" with
Calix – Using Broadband Stimulus Dollars for Strategic Investment
Leveraging $12.4 million in
Broadband Stimulus grants and loans, Northeast Louisiana Telephone plans to
pull fiber and deploy Active Ethernet services throughout Morehouse Parish, a
rural area dotted with large farms. In conjunction with this fiber access
buildout, they also plan to deploy a new digital IPTV headend as well as a
Metaswitch softswitch for SIP voice over IP (VOIP) services. Enabling these
services will be a variety of Calix platforms and products, including the E7 Ethernet Service
Access Platform (ESAP), a wide range of Calix P-Series ONTs
specifically tailored for residential and business needs, and E5-110 Ethernet
Service Access Nodes (ESANs) for copper services.
"In the North American market,
Active Ethernet and GPON have emerged as the two preferred protocols for
delivering advanced fiber access services, and increasingly service providers moving
'Fiber Forward' are deploying both technology options in their networks to meet
the unique needs of their subscribers," said John Colvin, vice president of
field operations at Calix. "Calix fiber access solutions can natively support
both Active Ethernet and GPON, with both technologies supported from the same
optical line terminal (OLT) and each optical network terminal (ONT) capable of
auto-detecting the technology that optimally meets the subscribers' needs.
Calix excels at providing highly flexible access solutions that allow service
providers to optimally address their subscriber requirements, and we look
forward to assisting Northeast Louisiana Telephone in making its deployment a
success."
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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that are based upon management's current expectations and are inherently
uncertain. Forward-looking statements are based upon information available to
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release. Additional information on potential factors that could affect Calix's
results and other risks and uncertainties are detailed in its prospectus, filed
with the SEC on March 24, 2010, available at http://www.sec.gov.
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