MSO leverages Calix fiber access flexibility to address rapidly growing SMB market
PETALUMA, CA—October 19, 2010—Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced that Cox Business, currently the fourth largest provider of business Ethernet services in the U.S., is deploying the Calix E7 Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP) and a variety of Calix 700GX optical network terminals (ONTs)
to deliver advanced business services to small- and medium-sized
businesses (SMBs). Currently deployed in several of the Cox markets
across the country, the E7 and 700GX ONTs, along with a Calix cabinet
package called the Fiber Access Node, provide Cox Business with the
flexibility to deliver commercial-grade, fiber-based Ethernet services
over both point-to-point Ethernet and passive optical network (PON)
technologies.
"Fiber-based Ethernet services deliver efficient, flexible, and
robust business data transport at a significantly lower cost than
competitive solutions," says Dan Estes, executive director of
technology, Cox Business. "The modularity of the E7 is well-suited to
our operational model, allowing us to pay-as-we-grow as we pull fiber
to Fiber Access Nodes deeper in the network and incrementally add new
customers."
The Calix E7 is an all-Ethernet, environmentally hardened, high
capacity fiber access platform condensed into a highly flexible, small
form factor. Only one rack unit (RU) high, the E7 can be deployed
with or without an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) in a Calix
ODC-100 cabinet to create a "Fiber Access Node," supporting up to 256
subscribers over PON and point-to-point Ethernet to business locations
like office parks and high density commercial areas. Accessing 200
gigabits per second (Gbps) of available bandwidth capacity, each E7
line card supports a variety of technologies – point-to-point Ethernet,
PON and 10 gigabit Ethernet (10GE) transport rings – and is
well-suited to a wide range of business needs.
Complementing the E7 is the industry's broadest portfolio of ONTs,
each of which supports both point-to-point Ethernet and PON, providing
extensive deployment flexibility. Calix business ONTs also feature
time-division multiplexing (TDM) and pseudowire emulation edge-to-edge
(PWE3) T1s, multiple full line-rate gigabit Ethernet ports,
voice-over internet protocol (VOIP) and TDM voice, as well as radio
frequency (RF) video and internet protocol television (IPTV) support.
"Ethernet business services over fiber have emerged as a viable,
compelling, and growing service offering for multiple systems
operators (MSOs), allowing them to dramatically reset the competitive
bar in many markets from both a services and a price standpoint," said
John Colvin, vice president of field operations at Calix. "The E7 and
the 700GX family of ONTs provide Cox Business with the right tools to
help scale their fiber-rich network infrastructure, and the Fiber
Access Node provides a field-ready package that allows for rapid
deployment virtually anywhere in the network. Currently ranked highest
among small/midsize business data service providers according to J.D Power and Associates,
Cox Business has a history of success in driving advanced business
services to subscribers across the country, and we look forward to the
growing role that the Calix E7 and the 700GX family of ONTs will play
as Cox increasingly leverages fiber and Ethernet to extend this
leadership."
The Calix E7 and the 700GX family of ONTs – as well as a Calix Fiber
Access Node based on the ODC-100 cabinet– will be on display at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, October 20-22, 2010 at Calix Booth 1607 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.
About Calix
Calix is a leading North American provider 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 seven 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.
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