Hawaiian Telcom selects Calix for broadband initiatives

Acclaimed largest full-service provider of communications services, products and solutions in Hawaii and the 10th largest U.S. incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC), Hawaiian Telcom, has selected the Calix Unified Access portfolio for its advanced broadband network transformation initiatives.

Neila Matheny of Calix affirmed this Monday to ITRealms Online, saying that Hawaiian Telcom plans to use the Calix E3-12C Serviceable Below Grade (SBG) sealed Ethernet Service Access Node (ESAN) and E7-2 Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP) to accelerate the transformation of their outside plant, pulling fiber deeper into the network and leveraging very high-speed digital subscriber line two (VDSL2), gigabit Ethernet (GE), and 10GE technologies to deliver a superior service experience for their subscribers.

These, Matheny said, would include ultra-fast high-speed data, reliable voice, and advanced Internet protocol television (IPTV).

“With the addition of Hawaiian Telcom, the Calix family continues to grow beyond the 1000-customer mark and expand across the globe,” Matheny said.

The chief operating officer at Hawaiian Telcom, Mr. Kurt Hoffman, was quoted as saying that the flexibility and capacity of Calix E-Series systems are great match for his firm’s emerging network requirements.

“As we continue to introduce new and advanced broadband services like IPTV and hosted Voice over IP (VOIP), it is critical that we balance the needs of the future with bringing these exciting services to our customers quickly and efficiently,” he said.

Calix, according to him, brings deep experience in advanced services deployment and a portfolio of industry-leading solutions to Hawaiian Telcom’s broadband initiatives, positioning the operator well to aggressively implement service delivery plans.

He said that as communications service providers bring high-speed broadband services closer to the subscribers, these were often required to deploy systems in challenging environments.

He pointed out that many of these deployment scenarios are subject to tidal and rainwater flooding, citing an instance with the E3-12C SBG sealed ESAN meets this need even when fully immersed in salt water for extended periods of time.

These sealed units, he said, deliver the flexibility to be deployed in a variety of other locations, all support 12 VDSL2/POTS combo ports with ADSL fallback and are capable of bonding.

“Hawaiian Telcom will be using the one rack-unit (1RU) E7-2 ESAP for aggregation of multiple GE lines from deployed E3-12Cs and for ringed 10GE transport,” he said, even as both of these Calix platforms connect seamlessly into the Hawaiian Telcom back office systems through an XML northbound interface enabled by the Calix Management System (CMS), facilitating expedient deployment coupled with rapid provisioning and services turn-up.  

Remmy Nweke

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