BrightRidge Partners With Calix to Electrify Its Utility Business With Fiber Broadband Service
March 12 2019 - 8:25AM
Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced BrightRidge, a local
not-for-profit public utility in northeastern Tennessee, has
partnered with Calix to launch broadband service to transform its
business and better serve its 78,000 subscribers. Deploying
broadband service enables BrightRidge to better its communities by
offering affordable, high-speed connectivity to the underserved,
while making a strategic move to create new revenue streams for the
local utility.
BrightRidge began this massive project by bidding out different
parts of the network and selected Calix as its partner from the
datacenter edge all the way through to the subscriber premises.
Core to this broadband initiative is the AXOS platform, which
ensures BrightRidge can build its new network utilizing a
simplified architecture while dramatically reducing operating costs
and time-to-market. BrightRidge has also selected Calix Carrier
Class Mesh-Enhanced Wi-Fi as its in-home subscriber offering. To
optimize the management of these residential and business networks,
BrightRidge is deploying Calix Support Cloud and working with Calix
Success Services to quickly adopt best practices and expedite time
to value.
“We selected Calix not only for the best-of-breed solutions that
enabled us to simplify our network from end-to-end but also for the
professionalism they displayed throughout the process,” said Stacy
Evans, chief broadband officer for BrightRidge. “In Calix we have a
trusted partner who works with us through every step of our
deployment and helps us analyze and optimize the ongoing management
of our new network.”
With the AXOS platform’s hardware independence, services
abstraction, and stateful operation, along with AXOS Diagnostics
Toolbox, BrightRidge can be confident its subscribers will have an
exceptional experience. Furthermore, BrightRidge will be able to
deliver the services, such as 10G, that these subscribers demand
while reducing the need for maintenance windows or truck rolls to
diagnose network issues.
To usher in high speed internet services all the way into the
home, BrightRidge is deploying Calix GigaCenters and 804Mesh
satellites. Combined with Calix Support Cloud, which leverages
machine learning, BrightRidge has access to the analytics necessary
to remotely manage the network and proactively address subscriber
issues before they require truck rolls.
“BrightRidge is the latest example in a growing trend of
municipal utility providers recognizing the important role
broadband plays in the lives of their residents and taking the
initiative to deliver that service,” said Skip Hirvela, vice
president of sales for Calix. “We are excited to embark on this
network journey with BrightRidge and are pleased that they
recognize the value in rolling out an end-to-end Calix network.
From central office to subscribers, we deliver the flexibility and
the best of breed solutions that will ensure these smaller
communities in northeastern Tennessee can access the best broadband
experience the market can offer.”
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About Calix
Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) – Innovative communications service
providers rely on Calix platforms to help them master and monetize
the complex infrastructure between their subscribers and the cloud.
Calix is the leading global provider of the cloud and software
platforms, systems, and services required to deliver the unified
access network and smart premises of tomorrow. Our platforms and
services help our customers build next generation networks by
embracing a DevOps operating model, optimize the subscriber
experience by leveraging big data analytics and turn the complexity
of the smart home and business into new revenue streams.
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