MAY 3, 2004, PETALUMA, CALIFORNIA—Calix
today announced the general availability of Platform Release 3.0, the latest
enhancement to the market-leading Calix C7 ultra-broadband loop carrier (UBLC).
This platform release makes the Calix C7 the first system able to drive Fast
Ethernet (FE) and Gigabit Ethernet (GE) services to business subscribers out of
the same platform used to deliver FTTP, DSL, and POTS access services; DS1 and
DS3 hi-cap services; and SONET transport services. In addition to other
features, the Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet line cards allow any Calix C7
platform to be equipped with up to 240 FE ports or 80 GE ports.
Typical of Calix customers that have deployed the C7 platform with Ethernet interfaces
is the roughly 4,000 square-mile US Army White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) in
south central New Mexico. This mission-critical installation employs the Calix
C7 to deliver Fast Ethernet services over an OC-48 SONET transport network. In
full production for over one year, the WSMR network employs Generic Framing
Procedure (GFP), allowing nearly 100% SONET payload utilization for Ethernet traffic.
According to Calix product marketing director Miguel Alonso, "This is a very significant
platform release for Calix—the addition of Ethernet service capabilities to the
market-leading Calix C7 UBLC dramatically expands the range of
revenue-building, packet-based services that providers can deliver to their
customers. The ease with which providers can incrementally add Ethernet
services—simply by adding a line card at any network location—truly makes
Ethernet available everywhere."
With a 12-port FE card and a 4-port GE card, the Calix C7 is able support up to 240
Fast Ethernet connections or 80 Gigabit Ethernet connections. With 1Tbps of
aggregate backplane capacity over a single 7' rack, five Calix C7s can support
up to 1,200 FE ports or 400 GE ports. From a range of outdoor cabinets
deployable in business parks and campuses, up to 1,440 FE ports or 480 GE ports
can be supported from a single cabinet. Each FE and GE interface supports layer
two switching, transparent LAN services (TLS), 802.1Q VLANs and VLAN stacking,
802.3x flow control, Ethernet Packet Rings (EPR), Virtual Concatenation, and
rate policing in 1Mbps increments. These capabilities allow carriers to deliver
a wide variety of enhanced business data services while also supporting other
services ranging from POTS and DSL to OC-48 SONET.
Platform Release 3.0, which is available to all Calix customers as a simple software
upgrade, also enables a range of additional functionality, including: a new
HDSL line card that supports both HDSL2 and HDSL4 via software selection; a
4-port, packet-mode (UNI/NNI) DS3 card for ATM applications; and a broadband
relief kit allowing the Calix C7 to be deployed in Marconi, AFC, and Fujitsu
cabinets.
About Calix
Calix is a leading supplier of telecommunications solutions designed to simplify all
aspects of voice, data, and video service delivery to business and residential
subscribers for local exchange carriers of all sizes. Providing extensive
optical and metallic density, unprecedented access system capacity and
functional headroom, advanced management and provisioning capabilities, and
broad service flexibility, the packet-based Calix C7 platform has
been deployed in over 120 service provider networks throughout North America.
More information about Calix can be found at www.calix.com.
For additional information contact:
Jacquelyn Dara
Calix
W: 707-766-3337
M: 415-572-3272
jdara@calix.com
