Telecom Lead America: Five communications service
providers in the U.S. have selected the Calix Unified Access portfolio to
support $35 million of fiber access broadband initiatives program (BIP)
stimulus projects.
Aggregate Calix vendor selections by broadband stimulus
winners for last mile and middle mile awards have gone up to 94 different
projects. This represents over $1.8 billion in stimulus-related grants, loans,
and private investment for plant engineering, materials, labor, and other
costs, including access equipment.
Calix launches two new optical line terminal cards
Recently, Calix has introduced two new optical line
terminal (OLT) cards to its Unified Access portfolio. More than 70 percent of
Calix’s 1,000 customers are deploying fiber access services across the
B-Series, C-Series, and E-Series platforms and nodes and optical network
terminals (ONTs).
Calix said one of these service providers who is
expanding the reach of broadband services over fiber is Clear Lake Independent
Telephone Company (CL Tel) of northern Iowa. With a $7.9 million BIP award, CL
Tel is planning to deploy the Calix E7-20 Multi-Terabit Ethernet Services
Platform (ESAP) to bring data, voice, and IPTV services in the Clear Lake and
Ventura area.
“As the local service provider, our business is an
essential part of the local economy of our rural community here in northern
Iowa,” said Tom Lovell, general manager at CL Tel.
Along with CL Tel, four other service providers have
recently selected the Calix Unified Access portfolio to support fiber access
Broadband Stimulus projects across the Calix B6, C7, and E7 platforms,
including the following service providers whose award values include plant
engineering, materials, labor, and other costs, including access equipment:
Castle Cable TV will bring broadband services over
gigabit passive optical network (GPON) to several communities in Jefferson and
St. Lawrence counties of New York.
Monroe Telephone Company is providing high-speed data
services to unserved areas of Lane and Benton counties in rural Oregon.
Spruce Knob Seneca Rocks Telephone will utilize an $8.5
million BIP award to deploy a new fiber access network, with supporting
wireless infrastructure to provide broadband service in Pendleton and
Pocahontas Counties in West Virginia.
Warm Springs Telecommunications Company will enable the
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs to build a hybrid fiber and fixed wireless
telecommunications company to serve the 1000 square miles of the Warm Springs
Reservation, in Oregon.
“The Broadband Stimulus program continues to act as
a catalyst for the expansion of broadband throughout the country,” said
John Colvin, Calix senior vice president of North America sales and marketing.
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