Virginia-based cooperative to enable gigabit Ethernet speeds to over 18,000 premises
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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