Calix Highlights Expanded Product Portfolio for Integrated Information, Communication, and Entertainment Services at GLOBALCOMM 2006.Calix calix /ca·lix/ (ka´liks) pl. ca´lices [L.] calyx. ca·lix or ca·lyx n. pl. ca·li·ces or ca·ly·ces 1. A flower-shaped or funnel-shaped structure. :
WHO: Calix today announced it will showcase live demonstrations
of IPTV services delivered via the various Calix product
lines at the GLOBALCOMM 2006 conference. The company will
showcase information, communication, and entertainment
services over both copper and fiber access, while featuring
the newly expanded Calix product line at the Calix booth
(#34026). The Calix product family includes C-Series
multiservice access platforms; E-Series service edge nodes;
F-Series GPON access products; and the CMS service
management system.
WHAT: Calix will showcase demonstrations of technologies that
simplify network and service transformation for
information, communication and entertainment services. In
addition, products from all four of the Calix portfolio of
access solutions will also be on display.
There will be eight dedicated areas of focus in the booth:
-- Advanced Entertainment services, which will include
demonstrations of HDTV and interactive applications
delivered over DSL and PON
-- Advanced Communications services, which will showcase
demonstrations of video telephony, mobile video, and
VOIP services
-- Advanced Information services, which will include
demonstrations of HDTV on a PC, HD Xbox gaming, and
advanced home and service network management in
conjunction with Netopia
-- CalixCompatible products, which will showcase third
party ONTs and STBs from Siemens, Tellabs and
Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco company
-- FTTP services, featuring the F5 FTTP system and 700-
and 500-Series ONTs
-- FTTN services, highlighting the E5 service edge node
and VDSL2 modems
-- Multiservice products, which will include the C7
multiservice access platform and 700-Series ONTs and
VDSL2 modems
-- Management capabilities that will highlight CMS and
comprehensive management across the portfolio
The following CalixCompatible suppliers will also
participate in an IPTV demonstration: Amino
(www.amino.com), Entone (www.entone.com), Minerva
(www.minervanetworks.com), Myrio (www.myrio.com), Netopia
(www.netopia.com), Scientific Atlanta (www.sciatl.com),
Sentivision (www.sentivision.com) and Tandberg
(www.tandberg.net).
NOTE: The recently published book, Beyond Video...The Book
on Network Transformation, the second book in a series from
Calix's vice president of product development Frank Wiener,
will also be available in the Calix booth.
WHERE: GLOBALCOMM 2006
Calix booth # 34026
McCormick Place
Chicago, IL
WHEN: Monday, June 5 -- Wednesday, June 7, 2006
ABOUT CALIX Calix is the largest telecom equipment supplier focused solely on access solutions for broadband service See broadband and broadband service provider. delivery. Service providers deploy Calix access systems to enable a rich set of information, communication, and entertainment services and to expand their revenue base beyond connectivity A generic term for connecting devices to each other in order to transfer data back and forth. It often refers to network connections, which embraces bridges, routers, switches and gateways as well as backbone networks. . Calix access innovation helps service providers transform their networks from circuit to packet, from narrowband In communications, transmission rates up to T1 speeds (1.544 Mbps). The upper limit is moving target. At one time, narrowband meant 150 bps (that is 150 bits per second!). Then, the upper limit became 2,400 bps. Later, it moved to 64 Kbps. Contrast with wideband and broadband. to broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). , and to drive fiber deeper into the network. Calix has deployed its solutions in hundreds of service provider networks throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and has shipped more than two million ports. For more information, visit the Calix website at www.calix.com. |
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