Calix Adds Business ONTs

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced the introduction of three new optical network terminals (ONTs) to its Calix Unified Access Portfolio targeted at the fast growing small- and medium-sized business (SMB) and mobile backhaul markets. The 741GE, 742GE and 743GE ONTs feature industry-standard Ethernet operations, administration and management (OAM) to enable communications service providers to offer cost-effective solutions for small businesses and mobile backhaul. Available in an environmentally hardened, wall mountable form factor, each model supports a full gigabit per second of symmetrical bandwidth. These newest members of the Calix 700GE family further expand the broadest portfolio of ONTs in the industry with an extensive range of advanced broadband services.

“Over the years, we have created and marketed a broad suite of business services, including business voice, security, high capacity broadband and even web design and hosted offerings,“ said Kent Claussen, CTO at Enhanced Telecommunications Corporation in southeast Indiana. “Meeting service level agreements (SLAs) for our business customers is essential to the success of these services and customer satisfaction. With the OAM capabilities that Calix offers on the 740GE ONTs, we will be able to test and monitor our services with more granularity than ever before and provide a better quality of service to our business customers.”

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