Calix Wins Tennesee Stimulus Deal

Friday, 21 January 2011 15:54

Calix, Inc. today announced that Broadband Stimulus award winner North Central Telephone Cooperative (NCTC) has selected the Calix E7 Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP) to bring advanced broadband services to north central Tennessee and parts of southern Kentucky. This network, capable of delivering broadband speeds up to one gigabit per second (1 Gbps) to each subscriber, will bring some of the fastest high-speed data services in the country to the residents, businesses, and anchor institutions of Macon, Smith, and Sumner Counties, while also delivering advanced entertainment services like internet protocol television (IPTV). The NCTC Broadband Stimulus award totals $49.7 million in overall funds, including a $24.7 million grant and a $25.0 million loan, for plant engineering, materials, labor, and other costs, including access equipment. This ambitious “Fiber Forward” project will use Active Ethernet (AE) technology to reach over 15,000 homes, businesses, and anchor institutions. “While we are 40 miles from the nearest interstate highway, the Broadband Stimulus program has allowed us to build the proverbial ‘information superhighway’ to our region,” said Nancy White, president and CEO of NCTC. “Through this initiative, our subscribers will benefit from a network that delivers some of the nation’s fastest broadband speeds, with nearly limitless potential for new applications for education, entertainment, health care, industrial development and more. Our community has been given a golden opportunity, so we chose to partner with Calix in bringing this vision to reality.” The E7 ESAP provides NCTC with a modular two-slot, one rack unit chassis with a 100 Gbps non-blocking backplane that accommodates the bandwidth demands of Active Ethernet flexibly and cost-effectively. NCTC will also leverage the industry’s broadest and most advanced optical network terminal portfolio, the 700GX/GE family of ONTs. Calix Networks Inc. (NYSE: CALX)