PETALUMA, CA—June 15, 2010—Calix (NYSE: CALX) today announced that the Barbourville Utility Commission
(Barbourville UC) and the Russellville
Electric Plant Board (Russellville EPB) have selected the Calix E7 Ethernet
Service Access Platform (ESAP) and the Calix 700GX/700GE ONT portfolio to
bring advanced video and broadband access to more than 10,000 subscribers in
rural Kentucky. These municipal utilities are moving "Fiber Forward" in
their respective communities, leveraging the E7 and 700GX/GE family of optical
network terminals (ONTs) to deliver both gigabit passive optical network (GPON)
and Active Ethernet technologies to residences and businesses. Subscribers of
these services will be able to receive up to one gigabit per second (Gbps)
delivered directly to the premises, over which these municipalities plan to
deliver services like IPTV, traditional radio frequency (RF) cable services,
and ultra high-speed broadband services.
A municipal
utility, Barbourville UC is located in the southeast corner of Kentucky, and provides more than 6,000 customers in Knox County with cable, Internet, water
and electric services. By deploying the Calix E7 ESAP and
724GX
and 721GE ONTs, Barbourville UC can leverage its existing cable headend
across the same fiber to the premises infrastructure that delivers advanced
broadband services. As Josh Callihan, director at the Barbourville UC,
explains, "the Calix Unified Access
portfolio allows us to run our cable TV system over fiber using standards-based
GPON – we can now provide quality HDTV and ultra high-speed Internet access
more reliably and at a fraction of the cost of pulling hybrid fiber coaxial
(HFC)."
Also a
municipal utility, Russellville EPB provides electric and Internet services to
more than 4,000 subscribers in the city of Russellville, located in
southwestern Kentucky. Looking to upgrade its infrastructure to meet the
burgeoning service demands of the community, Russellville EPB conducted an
extensive search for a "future-proof" fiber access infrastructure. The
scalability, non-blocking architecture, flexibility, and broad portfolio of
Calix ONTs were key factors that distinguished the Calix fiber access
solution from eight other competitors. Equally as important, however, was
the ease of deployment of the Calix system. As Jeff Borders, Russellville EPB
operations manager explains, "The
Calix engineer walked in with an E7 under his arm and had triple play running
within the hour. The ease of installation and configuration are critical to a
utility stepping into new services, and were important criteria for us."
"We were torn between Active Ethernet and
GPON," said Ryan Coleman, Russellville
EPB systems analyst. "But when we saw
the Calix auto-detecting ONTs supported both without a truck roll, it
eliminated any concerns we had over technology. With just the move of a fiber
jumper, we can deploy either GPON or Active Ethernet out of the same optical
line terminal (OLT) and ONT to any given customer premises, providing us with
optimal network flexibility and significant long term operational and economic
advantages."
"Municipal utilities like Barbourville and
Russellville EBP are taking the initiative to leverage their existing
subscriber relationship and deliver the new utility service of the 21st
century – fiber-enabled broadband,"
said John Colvin, vice president of field operations at Calix. "The long term investment horizon of
municipal utilities is a perfect match for access infrastructure like the Calix
E7 and 700GX/GE family of ONTs, which were designed with the bandwidth headroom
and architectural flexibility to meet what we expect to be the service needs of
communications service providers for a decade or more. We are proud to be
working with Barbourville UC and Russellville EPB to bring advanced
entertainment and broadband services to these bandwidth-hungry communities in
rural Kentucky, and plan to be feeding the broadband needs of their subscribers
with the equipment they are deploying for a long, long time."
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.
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 March 27, 2010, filed with the SEC on May 7,
2010, available at http://www.sec.gov.
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