The E7-20 Multi-Terabit ESAP to Bring Advanced Broadband Services to Rural Wyoming and Idaho
PETALUMA, CA, Aug 10, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced that two-time Broadband
Stimulus award winner Silver Star Telephone Company (Silver Star) has
selected the EXA Powered Calix E7 Ethernet Services Access Platform
(ESAP) to bring advanced broadband services to residences, businesses,
and community anchor institutions in northern Wyoming and southern
Idaho. The two comprehensive community infrastructure projects will
enhance the broadband network opportunities in 16 counties and dozens of
rural communities in the region. Both projects will leverage the E7
ESAP, including the E7-20 multi-terabit ESAP and modular E7-2 ESAP, as
well as the 700GE family of optical network terminals (ONTs) to provide
advanced voice, internet protocol television (IPTV), and ultra
high-speed data services of up to 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) and
transport services of 10 Gbps, to as many as 12,000 premises in the
region. The two projects, made possible by two awards from the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA's) Broadband
Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP), will leverage nearly $13.6
million in grants and matching private investments, of which only a
portion is access equipment.
"These projects fill a gap that had historically limited the
broadband opportunities available to the citizens, businesses, and
institutions on the Wyoming and Idaho border," said Ron McCue, COO of
Silver Star. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to connect the
region to the rest of Wyoming's fiber optic network and increase the
capacity, reliability and speed with which we communicate. We have been
searching for viable ways to close this gap for years, and the
combination of these funds and the technology and expertise of our
long-time partner Calix will allow us to bring our vision of broadband
opportunity for this region to fruition."
The two awarded projects will leverage nearly $10.7 million in grants
and $2.9 million in matching funds, of which only a portion is for
access equipment. For these projects, Silver Star will pull a combined
total of 127 miles of fiber optic cable to enable services to as many as
10,200 households, 1900 businesses, and a wide variety of community
anchor institutions. The E7 ESAPs utilized will enable the delivery of
advanced voice, data, and IPTV services using gigabit passive optical
network (GPON), Active Ethernet (AE), and point-to-point gigabit
Ethernet (GE) technologies, and 10 gigabit Ethernet for robust and
reliable access transport services.
Silver Star is one of the first Calix customers to deploy the E7-20
multi-terabit ESAP, a high capacity, low latency, all-fiber access
concentrator designed for an all-video world. Architected to meet the
needs of the next generation Internet where high bandwidth Internet
protocol (IP) video streams proliferate and are delivered over fiber
access infrastructure, the E7-20 is a two terabits per second (Tbps)
access concentrator with the capacity to symmetrically deliver 100 Gbps
of non-blocking, fully redundant throughput to each of its 20 universal
line card slots. Silver Star is deploying the E7-20 along with the E7-2
and 700GE family of ONTs with auto-detect capabilities across both of
its Broadband Stimulus awards, and using the Calix Management System
(CMS) to provision and manage the delivery of advanced broadband
services across GPON, AE, and point-to-point GE to its subscribers.
"We would like to congratulate Silver Star on its two Broadband
Stimulus awards, and on its bold aspirations to bring advanced broadband
opportunity to one of the nation's most scenic, but also most rural
areas," said John Colvin, vice president of field operations at Calix.
"Calix is proud to be a key partner to Silver Star in bringing the
opportunity for advanced broadband services to northern Wyoming and
southern Idaho, and we look forward to working together to make these
critical regional projects a reality."
With today's announcement, aggregate Calix vendor selections by
Broadband Stimulus winners for "last mile" and "middle mile" awards have
now reached 63 different projects representing approximately $1.2
billion in Stimulus-related grants, loans, and private investment for
plant engineering, materials, labor, and other costs, including access
equipment.
About Calix
Calix (NYSE: CALX) is a global leader in access innovation. Its
Unified Access portfolio of broadband communications access systems and
software enable communications service providers worldwide to be the
broadband provider of choice to their subscribers. For more information,
visit the Calix website at www.calix.com.
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