PETALUMA, CA—July 14, 2010—Calix,
Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced that the E7 Ethernet Service
Access Platform (ESAP) has been deployed by more than 100 communications
service providers (CSPs) across North and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Architected to address the emerging capacity and flexibility challenges of an "all-video
world," the E7 has found fertile ground among a wide variety of CSPs looking to
deploy advanced Ethernet-based fiber access services – from traditional
independent operating companies (IOCs) who are looking to deliver advanced
residential services to their communities, to municipalities and international
carriers seeking to inspire economic development, to multiple systems operators
(MSOs) and competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) providing reliable Metro
Ethernet Forum (MEF) services to business. The fastest platform in Calix
history to be deployed by 100 customers, the E7 has surpassed this milestone
after just two quarters of availability, and has been installed by over 20% of
Calix fiber access customers to date. Despite the wide diversity of CSPs who
have deployed the E7, each has deployed the platform to achieve a common goal –
to quickly bring to market advanced broadband services over fiber to their
subscribers, while managing these services with optimal efficiency and future
capacity.
"The E7 broke new ground
among access platforms, and its rapid adoption has quickly validated the ESAP
category," said Teresa Mastrangelo, founder of BroadbandTrends, a leading
telecommunications analyst firm. "In a world where high-bandwidth video
services are increasingly proliferating, the E7's rich fiber flexibility across
Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) and Active Ethernet, and enormous 100
gigabits per second (Gbps) capacity per slot has struck a chord with
communications service providers looking to future-proof their networks from a
capacity and advanced applications perspective. That said, its modularity is
what will allow them to grow and manage these networks cost effectively in the
future, which in the long run may be its most valuable feature."
The
E7 ESAP – Architected to
Address the Emerging Demands of CSPs
The Ethernet
Extensible Architecture (EXA) Powered E7 ESAP is a highly extensible
standards-based, Ethernet platform that offers CSPs the flexibility needed to
address the bandwidth and operational challenges of an increasingly "all-video
world," while maintaining an architectural simplicity that eases provisioning
and operations. Its modular, chassis-based pure Ethernet architecture marries
an advanced 100 Gbps full duplex backplane with a one rack unit (RU), two slot
chassis for carrier class performance, deployment flexibility, and management
simplicity. Each E7 can deploy a mix of GPON, point-to-point gigabit Ethernet
(GE) or Active Ethernet (AE), and 10 gigabit Ethernet (10GE) transport for
business and residential services. In addition, each E7 chassis can be deployed
in combination with other E7s in one RU increments to form a single network
element composed of up to ten chassis with a common IP address. The result is a
fully customizable platform that can be implemented in the access network on a
pay-as-you-grow manner without the penalty of management or deployment
complexity.
The Platform
of Choice for the Majority of Broadband Stimulus Awardees to Date
In addition to high profile selections by some of the
nation's largest fiber access deployments among IOCs (see Smithville
selects Calix and South
Slope Cooperative Communications Company moves "Fiber Forward" with Calix
Active Ethernet) and municipalities (see Barbourville
Utility Commission and Russellville Electric Plant Board each select Calix)
across both GPON and Active Ethernet, the E7's fiber focus, operational
simplicity, and deployment flexibility have made it well-suited to Broadband
Stimulus projects. To date, Calix has been selected as the access vendor to 9
awarded "last mile" Stimulus projects, representative of 75% of the "last mile"
projects where vendors have been selected. Of these Calix projects, over 90%
are utilizing the E7 as a key platform in their projects. "As a Broadband
Stimulus award winner, it was important for us to ensure that we were deploying
a platform that was aligned with the long-term strategic needs of our network,"
said Mike George, president and general manager of Broadband Stimulus award
winner Northeast Louisiana Telephone
Company. "The E7 provides us with the peace of mind that we can utilize the
right technology to address emerging applications in our network, while
providing us an operational model that allows us to scale after Broadband
Stimulus projects are over."
"CSPs are seeing the
implications of an 'all-video world' emerge rapidly around them – where data growth driven by video demand is
significantly outstripping revenue growth," said Kevin Pope, senior vice
president of product development at Calix. "The Calix E7 was architected to
meet the service and capacity demands of this emerging world, enabling the
right combination of headroom, modularity, and operational efficiency to
deliver advanced, video-centric, broadband services at what we believe to be
the lowest cost per bit. We knew that we had something special that was aligned
with changing the deployment, operations, and business realities faced by CSPs
when we brought the E7 to market at the end of 2009, and we are extremely
pleased to see that, given its rapid adoption, CSPs seem to agree."
About Calix
Calix,
Inc. 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 March 27, 2010, filed with the SEC on
May 7, 2010, available at http://www.sec.gov.
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