PETALUMA, CA—January 31, 2011—Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced that Scott County
Telephone Cooperative (Scott County) has selected the Calix E7 Ethernet
Service Access Platform (ESAP) to bring Active Ethernet (AE) solutions to over
18,000 residences, businesses, and community institutions in the communities it
serves in rural Appalachia. The two projects, which leverage both Broadband
Stimulus funds and private investment, allow Scott County to move "Fiber
Forward" across its southwestern Virginia footprint, replacing its aging copper
infrastructure with advanced, standards-based fiber access networks that can deliver
up to one gigabit per second (Gbps) to each premises. The Broadband Stimulus
awarded project, which includes plant engineering,
materials, labor, and other costs, including access equipment, totals
$24.9 million, composed of a $7.5 million loan and $17.4 million grant through
the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) and reaches approximately 12,000
residences, 80 businesses, and 16 community institutions. The privately funded
project reaches the remaining portions of its service area in and around Gate
City, Virginia, reaching more than 6,000 residences and businesses.
"Between these two
projects, the broadband infrastructure serving the citizens and businesses of
Scott County will become one of the most advanced in the nation, bringing new
economic opportunity and services to our corner of rural Appalachia," said Bill
Franklin, chief executive officer at Scott County. "With an all-fiber network
capable of delivering up to a gigabit per second to every premises in our
community, we are investing for the long term in both our subscribers and our
business. Calix has already proven to be a valuable partner in turning our
vision into reality, and we look forward to leveraging their continued innovation
to successfully bring both of these projects to fruition."
Scott County's network is
designed to deliver highly-demanded services such as IPTV, symmetrical residential
and business data services, and reliable voice over internet protocol (VOIP)
services, all while driving new deployment and operational efficiencies
throughout its network. The company is using the Calix E7 ESAP and the broad 700GX/700GE ONT portfolio to
deliver these services, while leveraging the modularity and flexibility of these
solutions to wring costs out of network installation and service deployment. Currently
deploying 25 new subscribers per week on its new fiber access networks, hundreds
of Scott County Active Ethernet subscribers are already experiencing the
benefits of advanced broadband services.
"The combination of the
vision of Scott County and the Broadband Stimulus program are laying the
foundation for extraordinary transformation in rural Appalachia," said John
Colvin, vice president of field operations at Calix. "We are honored to assist Scott
County in bringing advanced fiber access services to this region, and look
forward to continuing to assist them in extending the successes that they have
already seen to their entire network."
With
today's announcement, aggregate Calix vendor selections by Broadband
Stimulus winners for "last mile" and "middle middle mile" awards have now
reached twenty six different projects representing approximately $416 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 North American
provider of broadband communications access
systems and software for fiber- and copper- based network architectures that
enable communications service providers to connect to their residential and
business subscribers. Calix has shipped over seven million ports of its
Unified Access portfolio to more than 600 global customers, whose networks
serve over 40 million subscriber lines in total.
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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
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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 September 25, 2010, filed with the SEC on October 22,
2010, available at http://www.sec.gov.
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