Calix Extends its FTTP Leadership with GPON and Active Ethernet Fiber Deployments with More Than 375 Customers
June 24, 2009, PETALUMA, CA—Calix,
the largest communications equipment supplier focused solely on
access solutions for broadband service delivery, today announced the
availability of the Calix E5-312,
a residential Active Ethernet (AE) platform. With over 375 fiber to
the premises (FTTP) customers to date, Calix is continuing to expand its
industry-leading fiber portfolio with the small form-factor E5-312.
Calix also announced today the availability of an enhancement to its
industry-leading Extended Reach GPON on the Calix C7 Multiservice Access Platform (MSAP), now allowing customers to reach subscribers located up to 40 km from any Calix C7 FTTP serving location.
"The addition of new optimized residential Active Ethernet and
enhanced rural GPON solutions to the Calix Unified Access
Infrastructure provide service providers deploying fiber with expanded
options and unmatched FTTP deployment flexibility," said Kevin Pope,
senior vice president of product development at Calix. "No matter what
the deployment scenario is for our service provider customers
deploying fiber—whether it is GPON or Active Ethernet, business or
residential services, small form factor or high-density requirements, or
a need to support RF video or IPTV—Calix has the right solution to
meet our customers' needs."
The Calix E5-312 delivers last mile AE service to residential
subscribers at distances of up to 60 km while preserving service
providers' current investment in Calix' optical network terminals (ONTs). The new residential AE platform offers a number of benefits:
- The E5-312 is a purpose-built, environmentally hardened,
small-form-factor 1RU platform that enables flexible deployment from
the CO to the edge of the access network.
- AE enables up to 1Gbps dedicated symmetrical bandwidth,
allowing service providers to strategically serve high capacity
residential customers whose upstream bandwidth requirements exceed
that of the general consumer.
- The flexibility of the Calix 700GX ONTs,
which auto-detects and supports both AE and GPON from a common ONT,
enables service providers to use the E5-312, or other Calix C- and
E-Series platforms, to select the appropriate form factor and
technology to match the service requirements of subscribers without
the capital or operational expense of replacing the ONT.
The entire Calix FTTP product portfolio supports Calix' 700GX ONT
family, which leverages Calix' ONT auto-detect optics to support GPON
and Active Ethernet. Auto-detect optics streamline a service
provider's ability to offer any service, any technology and any speed,
including RF overlay and IPTV, from a common FTTP serving location.
The 700GX ONTs allow service providers to remotely provision and
convert any subscriber to residential AE without expensive truck-rolls
or customer premises ONT upgrades.
"The Calix E5-312 and 40km Extended Reach GPON provide the perfect
complements to our existing GPON deployments," said Rob St. Clair, plant
manager for Paul Bunyan Telephone. "Both solutions give us new
deployment flexibility and options, yet provide us with the
operational advantage of allowing delivery via the same ONT we already
deploy, and management via the same Calix Management System (CMS).
With the Calix FTTP portfolio, we have the flexibility to deploy the
most appropriate fiber technology to deliver virtually any advanced
residential or business broadband service—optimized to each unique
customer or deployment scenario."
Scalable Solution Supports Active Ethernet Services
The E5-312 offers a number of important features to meet service provider deployment needs:
- The platform has 12 GE SFP ports for symmetric 1GE AE services
that support copper or bi-directional (single fiber) optical modules;
the AE optics modules are Calix screened to ensure carrier-grade
performance.
- Two standards-based 10GE SFP+ ports support ring and point-to-point topologies.
- The platform supports several access network topologies,
including GE/AE aggregation, GE uplink aggregation, 10GE/GE network
uplink, and link aggregation.
- Link aggregation provides logical NxGE link bonding for bandwidth expansion.
- The E5-312 is fully managed by the Calix Management System (CMS), which provides a single network view and a common user experience independent of media type, protocol, or service.
Enhanced Extended Reach GPON Solution Optimized for Rural Environments
The latest C7 software Release 6.1 further enhances the Calix
Extended Reach GPON solution, enabling a standards-based solution
that, when deployed with a specialized, pluggable OIM, doubles a
service provider's GPON service radius from 20 km to 40 km. For many
service providers in rural, low-density areas, this capability can
save $50,000 or more in each instance that this extra reach allows
avoiding the installation and turn-up costs associated with reaching
remote users beyond the traditional 20km limit. The latest Extended
Reach GPON features the following benefits:
- Doubles the reach of standards-based GPON from 20 km to 40 km.
- Support on all existing C7 GPON OLT line cards (new pluggable OIM required).
- Support by any Calix 700, 700G, or 700GX ONT.
- Standards-compliant solution based on ITU-TG.984.6 and Amendment 2 to ITU-T G.984.2.
Armed with these new Calix access innovations, service providers now
have the luxury of using the optimal FTTP technology to address their
service demands, serving GPON up to 40 km or Active Ethernet up to 60
km.
Calix Dominates in Fiber Deployments
Over the past several years, Calix has continued to gain fiber market
share among North American service providers of all types. Calix now
boasts over 375 fiber customers, which span telcos, cable operators,
developers and municipalities. More than 75 percent of Calix' customer
base is deploying fiber technologies today.
"Calix continues to innovate across the fiber portfolio. Enhancing
FTTP reach flexibility provides a key weapon in the service provider
arsenal," said Geoff Burke, senior director of corporate marketing at
Calix. "Extensive polling conducted by Calix of hundreds of its
customers who plan to apply for broadband stimulus awards indicates
that over 80 percent plan to propose FTTP as their network technology
of choice, nearly 70 percent plan to use a mix of GPON and AE
technologies, and over 70 percent plan to address "unserved" areas in
their proposals. We expect the unique reach capabilities of both Calix
Extended Reach GPON and Active Ethernet solutions to play a major
role in many stimulus projects."
Availability
The Calix E5-312 platform and 40 km Extended Reach GPON solution on
the Calix C7 are in use in customer networks today and available now.
About Calix
Calix is the largest communications equipment supplier focused solely
on access solutions for broadband service delivery. Service providers
deploy Calix access systems to enable a rich set of information,
communication, and entertainment services and to expand their revenue
base beyond connectivity. Calix access innovation helps service
providers transform their networks from circuit to packet, narrowband
to broadband, and copper to fiber. Calix has deployed millions of
ports and tens of thousands of systems into hundreds of service
provider networks throughout North America. For more information, visit
the Calix website at www.calix.com.
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