Calix announced that Scott County Telephone Cooperative (ScottCounty) has selected the Calix E7 Ethernet Service Access Platform(ESAP) to bring Active Ethernet (AE) solutions to over 18,000residences, businesses, and community institutions in thecommunities it serves in rural Appalachia.
The two projects, which leverage both Broadband Stimulus fundsand private investment, allow Scott County to move "Fiber Forward"across its southwestern Virginia footprint, replacing its agingcopper infrastructure with standards-based fiber access networksthat can deliver up to one gigabit per second (Gbps) to eachpremises. The Broadband Stimulus awarded project, which includesplant engineering, materials, labor, and other costs, includingaccess equipment, totals $24.9 million, composed of a $7.5 millionloan and $17.4 million grant through the Broadband InitiativesProgram (BIP) and reaches approximately 12,000 residences, 80businesses, and 16 community institutions. The privately fundedproject reaches the remaining portions of its service area in andaround Gate City, Virginia, reaching more than 6,000 residences andbusinesses.
"Between these two projects, the broadband infrastructure servingthe citizens and businesses of Scott County will become one of themost advanced in the nation, bringing new economic opportunity andservices to our corner of rural Appalachia," said Bill Franklin, CEOat Scott County. "With an all-fiber network capable of delivering upto a gigabit per second to every premises in our community, we areinvesting for the long term in both our subscribers and ourbusiness."
Scott County's network is designed to deliver highly-demandedservices such as IPTV, symmetrical residential and business dataservices, and voice over internet protocol (VOIP) services, allwhile driving new deployment and operational efficiencies throughoutits network. The company is using the Calix E7 ESAP and the broad700GX/700GE ONT portfolio to deliver these services, whileleveraging the modularity and flexibility of these solutions towring costs out of network installation and service deployment.Currently deploying 25 new subscribers per week on its new fiberaccess networks, hundreds of Scott County Active Ethernetsubscribers are already experiencing the benefits of broadbandservices.
"The combination of the vision of Scott County and the BroadbandStimulus program are laying the foundation for extraordinarytransformation in rural Appalachia," said John Colvin, VP of fieldoperations at Calix. "We are honored to assist Scott County inbringing advanced fiber access services to this region, and lookforward to continuing to assist them in extending the successes thatthey have already seen to their entire network."
With this announcement, aggregate Calix vendor selections byBroadband Stimulus winners for "last mile" and "middle mile" awardshave now reached twenty six different projects representingapproximately $416 million in Stimulus-related grants, loans, andprivate investment for plant engineering, materials, labor, andother costs, including access equipment.
Calix is a North American provider of broadband communicationsaccess systems and software for fiber- and copper- based networkarchitectures that enable communications service providers toconnect to their residential and business subscribers. Calix hasshipped over seven million ports of its Unified Access portfolio tomore than 600 global customers, whose networks serve over 40 millionsubscriber lines in total.
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