
Every year, Calix awards the best-of-the-best with Innovations Awards. These customers are true giants in their categories, leading the way with Calix solutions. They’ve redefined the subscriber experience and built future-proof broadband businesses that reset nearly every standard. We also recognize our partners at the forefront of this transformative mindset, including those who collaborate with Calix customers to give every community what it deserves.
Vantage Point Solutions has enabled service providers to position themselves to deliver incredible value to their subscribers by securing nearly $3 billion in funding. Together, we’ve brought these conversations to organizations and individuals across the industry.
Frank’s quick and informed responses to new posts offer solid solutions and product advice to our members. He consistently provide valuable feedback for us through the Community and TAC surveys. With more comments and insights than the rest of the Community leaderboard combined, Frank truly ia a Calix Champion.
Jade Communications was named a winner because it has transformed its entire go-to-market strategy by including managed Wi-Fi as part of its internet service and deploying the Wi-Fi 6 BLAST u6 to all subscribers. Doing so helped Jade reduce its average new gateway integration time from four weeks to just one day. By leveraging EDGE Suites, Jade is taking control of its markets and decreasing subscriber churn. Jade subscribers represent the highest adoption of the ProtectIQ™ app among all Revenue EDGE customers.
Since March of 2020, WCTEL has brought customer experience to a whole new level. For its outstanding efforts in responding with agility and creativity to better serve subscribers during the global Coronavirus pandemic, we are pleased to award WCTEL with the Innovations in Revenue EDGE Award, in the category of Customer Experience.
ALLO has been recognized as an “Influencer to Watch” for its work in communicating the benefits of fiber and ultimate Wi-Fi, as well as its campaigns—including those in response to work-from-home, and “Settle for More.”
GVTC has been recognized as an “Influencer to Watch” for its work on promoting the benefits of Wi-Fi on LinkedIn
SCTelcom has been recognized as an “Influencer to Watch” for its work in promoting the CommandIQ™ app and Revenue EDGE Suites.
We’re excited to name Cumberland Connect as an Innovations award winner in the category of Network Operations. Cumberland Connect began taking subscriber orders May 1, in the most underserved parts of Tennessee, rapidly ramping to 200 installs per week. With member experience as a guidepost, it focused on proactively resolving issues and providing fun promotions like gigabit service for all when they hit 1,000 subscribers.
Many congratulations to Acentek on being named a Calix Innovations award winner in the category of Network Engineering. Acentek has been in business since 1950, and participated through the years in the growth of broadband building out a fiber network. They realized that challenges they were seeing in their network were actually an opportunity to take advantage of new architectures and systems and, most importantly, gain operational efficiency with a software platform.
Conexon is a leader in providing education and consulting exclusively for the electric cooperative community around the best ways to deploy fiber-to-the-home networks. We’re delighted to award Conexon the inaugural Consulting Engineering Partner of the Year Award in honor of the tremendous value it provides to its customers and their subscribers.
This Montana-based cooperative is accelerating its FTTH build out, which will reach 100 percent of its members within the next five years, with the assistance of Calix Professional Services and the MobilePro application.
Based in Johnson City, Tennessee, local electric utility BrightRidge is expanding its offering to bring broadband services, including 10G speeds, to the entire community over a Calix AXOS-powered network.
After suffering a fiber cut years ago that left the town of Santa Cruz, California without an Internet connection, Cruzio has been on a mission to transform the community’s broadband infrastructure and is utilizing the Calix AXOS platform and systems to deliver an always-on experience.
The largest member-owned telecommunications cooperative in the state of Alabama, Farmers Telecommunications Cooperative is preparing its community for the influx of 5G through the Calix AXOS platform, while utilizing Calix Cloud to become more efficient in customer support and marketing.
In northern and western Michigan, electric cooperative Great Lakes Energy (GLE) has created a successful FTTH pilot project built on a full suite of Calix software, systems, and services as it prepares for a membership-wide expansion of its broadband service under its Truestream subsidiary.
Texas-based GVTC Communications, which is delivering broadband services near some of the nation’s fastest growing cities, is taking Managed Wi-Fi to the next level with Calix Support Cloud, EXOS, and the GigaSpire BLAST solution.
By identifying the right subscriber segment that was most in need of 1 gigabit service through Calix Marketing Cloud, Home Telecom drove unprecedented marketing campaign results while providing subscribers the broadband experience they desired.
With the assistance of Calix Marketing Cloud and Calix Support Cloud, Kansas-based SCTelcom has transformed its business, turning all employees into marketers and driving new levels of success in marketing campaigns and customer support metrics.
With its first foray into broadband service, GoSEMO, a subsidiary of SEMO Electric Cooperative, is delivering gigabit speeds and Managed Wi-Fi service with great success to previously underserved areas in Missouri.
Through its investment in Calix Cloud, Montana’s Triangle Communications broke down the data silos across the company to become more efficient in its marketing and customer support efforts and deliver an overall elevated member experience.
With booming growth in its community, Pioneer built an Experience Management team and utilized the data from both Calix Marketing and Support Cloud to create an awareness and upgrade campaign, which has driven a considerable ARPU boost for the cooperative and elevated their subscribers’ experience.
Recognizing the passion its Nebraska-market subscribers had for the University of Nebraska Cornhusker football team, the all fiber-based ALLO Communications built its successful “We Believe” campaign around this common interest.
The largest independently owned telecommunications provider in Canada, Tbaytel outpaced its competition by becoming the first in its market to deliver Managed Wi-Fi service and has continued to see success with its Calix GigaCenter-based offering.
While rapidly growing to connect Lincoln, Nebraska and eight other communities with fiber, ALLO has found new customer support excellence through its Calix Support Cloud implementation.
Offering Whole Home Wi-Fi with premium technical support powered by GigaCenters, 804Mesh satellites, and Calix Support Cloud, ITS Fiber is prepared to lead the adoption of smart home devices.
While driving continued adoption of GigaCenters through its successful Premium Wi-Fi service, Nex-Tech has leveraged materials from Calix to accelerate and streamline its marketing campaigns.
CityFibre and Calix enter a strategic partnership to leverage AXOS and the E9-2 to deliver the UK's first software defined access (SDA) network.
With the AXOS platform serving as the foundation of its fiber network expansion, Gibson Connect is delivering broadband services to underserved areas of Tennessee while bringing new efficiencies to its electric network.
Housing Development Corporation of Maldives has partnered with Calix Services to create Asia’s first gigabit-enabled Smart City in Hulhumalé which will boast an open access network to support a target population of 240,000.
Calix ConneXions 2018 saw the presentation of the inaugural Innovations in Marketing award. Montana’s Triangle Communications received the award from an impressive pool of submissions from Calix customers, as it showcased how targeted marketing campaigns have led to new levels of success for the company. Hear directly from Triangle in its’ award-winning video.
Cedar Falls Utilities
Momentum Telecom
NCTC
Northpower Fibre
Paul Bunyan Communications
Pilot Fiber
Citizens Telephone Cooperative
Finger Lakes Technologies Group
Reedsburg Utility Commission
TDS
Ucom
Waitsfield Champlain Valley Telecom
West Carolina Tel
BEK
Dickey Rural Networks
Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative
Reservation Telephone
Sebastian
Volcano Communications
CenturyLink
Midwest Energy Cooperative
702 Communications
Allo Communications
CenturyLink
HBC
ITS Fiber
Nemont
Northpower Fibre
Saddleback Communications
Alma Telecom
Adams Fiber
FTC and HTC
Gila River Telecommunications, Inc.
Silver Star Communications
Arrowhead Electric/CTC
Cincinnati Bell
Consolidated Telcom
Endeavor Communications
Highland Telephone Cooperative
Home Telecom
Smithville
South Slope
TMS