Calix bags two more broadband stimulus projects

Broadband access equipment vendor Calix continues to clean up on broadband stimulus-related deployment contracts, announcing two more projects with week, both with Minnesota stimulus winners.

Southwest Minnesota Broadband Services (SMBS) , a consortium of Minnesota communities, will use Calix’s Ethernet Extensible Architecture-powered (EXA) E7 Ethernet Service Access Platform and 700GE family of optical network terminals (ONTs) to deliver broadband to eight rural communities across southwest Minnesota. The deployment is modeled on a nearby fiber to the premises (FTTP) network in Windom (MN) that Calix also built, and will leverage the experience and many key components of the Windomnet network infrastructure.

Calix’s other stimulus-related announcement this week was for a project with Minnesota’s Red River Telephone, which won about $10 million in stimulus money. Red River is building a 690 route-mile fiber network using GPON and gigabit Ethernet technologies via the Calix C7 Multi-Service Access Platform and 700GE family of ONTs. The network will cover several communities in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.