GPON deployment to bring advanced fiber-based broadband services to southwest Louisiana
PETALUMA, CA — January 24, 2011 — Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced that Broadband Stimulus award winner Cameron Communications has selected the Calix C7 Multiservice Access Platform (MSAP)
to bring advanced fiber-based broadband services to a trio of
"unserved" and "underserved" communities in southwest Louisiana. Capable
of delivering broadband speeds of up to one gigabit per second (Gbps),
Cameron Communications will deploy gigabit passive optical network
(GPON) technology to bring advanced digital video services, extremely
fast data services, and high-quality voice services to the residents,
businesses and community institutions in Moss Bluff, Oakdale and Vinton,
Louisiana. Cameron Communications, the parent company for formal award
recipient LBH, LLC., received $33.4 million in overall funds, including a
$16.7 million grant and a $16.7 million loan for plant engineering,
materials, labor, and other costs, including access equipment.
"Moss Bluff, Oakdale, and Vinton will now enjoy the benefits of the
'information superhighway' with this Stimulus award allowing us to
construct a world class fiber network infrastructure capable of bringing
advanced broadband services to these communities," said George Mack,
president of Cameron Communications and LBH, LLC. "The bandwidth and
fiber access infrastructure created by these projects will allow the
residents and businesses in these areas to keep pace with the increasing
demands of a global economy, as well as provide infrastructure upgrades
to local schools, libraries, hospitals, public safety and governmental
agencies. These projects are critical to the future of these
communities, and our long term relationship with Calix has shown us that
we can count on them to deliver when the stakes are high."
Cameron Communications will be leveraging the Calix C7 MSAP along
with the industry's broadest portfolio of optical network terminals
(ONTs), the 700GX/GE ONT family,
across all three of its projects to deliver advanced radio frequency
(RF) video, data, and voice services. A major part of the Calix Unified
Access portfolio, Calix fiber access solutions are the most widely
deployed in North America as measured by both revenue and optical line
terminal ports (Infonetics, Q3 2010).
"We are honored to have been chosen to be a key vendor to Cameron
Communications' ambitious Broadband Stimulus initiatives,"said John
Colvin, vice president of field operations at Calix."A strong Calix
customer since 2002, Cameron Communications has continually invested in
bringing advanced broadband services into the region, even in the face
of great adversity, like the devastation suffered after Hurricane Rita
in 2005. Broadband Stimulus has now presented them with great
opportunity, and the beneficiary will be the citizens of Moss Bluff,
Oakdale, and Vinton, Louisiana, who will soon enjoy one of the nation's
most advanced broadband infrastructures."
With today's announcement, aggregate Calix vendor selections by
Broadband Stimulus winners for "last mile" and "middle mile" awards have
now reached 23 different projects representing approximately $353
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 Infrastructure portfolio
to more than 600 North American and international customers, whose
networks serve over 40 million subscriber lines in total.
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