{"id":3902,"date":"2014-10-21T15:46:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T15:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/?p=3902"},"modified":"2018-06-06T10:09:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T10:09:34","slug":"calix-e7-delivers-fibredirect-service-for-businesses-to-irelands-first-fiber-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/?p=3902","title":{"rendered":"Calix E7 Delivers \u201cfibredirect\u201d Service for Businesses to Ireland\u2019s First Fiber Towns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish wholesale telecommunications operator enet chooses Calix for its new open access Fiber-to-the-Business network<\/em><\/p>\n

Calix, Inc<\/a>. (NYSE: CALX) has today announced that its Calix E7-2 Ethernet Service Access Platform <\/a>(ESAP) and P-<\/a> and T-Series fiber services gateways<\/a> have been chosen by enet<\/a> for the rollout of the company\u2019s \u201cfibredirect\u201d superfast fiber broadband service that targets small and medium-sized businesses in towns and cities throughout Ireland. enet, a private company, which operates fiber optic infrastructure on behalf of the Irish State, has now rolled out its \u201cfibredirect\u201d service in Claremorris, making that community Ireland\u2019s first fiber town, and will soon connect every business in the town directly to the national fiber infrastructure. This open access service will also soon be offered to businesses in three additional towns \u2013 Kilkenny, Loughrea, and Ardee \u2013 and will help to energize the rural local economies by providing greater connectivity for businesses, increasing their prospects for competitiveness and job creation. <\/p>\n

enet operates and manages the Irish State\u2019s fiber optic infrastructure known as the Metropolitan Area Networks or MANs, a wholesale open access telecoms infrastructure with 94 MAN-enabled towns in the Republic of Ireland. The aim of the MANs is to provide a middle mile infrastructure with high bandwidth capacity to all authorized operators. This model enables operators to sell high-capacity broadband and telephony services to end users such as large corporations. enet already serves the main service providers in the country with open access fiber. The new \u201cfibredirect\u201d initiative aims to extend the services to local ISPs in towns and cities throughout Ireland and to target the smaller and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in those communities, bringing last mile fiber to businesses and business parks throughout the chosen locations.<\/p>\n

Claremorris, in County Mayo in the West of Ireland, is the first community to go live with fiber business connections, as local ISP Airspeed Telecom has delivered speeds of up to 250 megabits per second (Mbps) since late September. enet \u201cfibredirect\u201d is a 100 percent fiber service, with fiber access infrastructure being delivered directly into premises. enet found the efficiency of GPON\u2019s shared infrastructure as the best fiber technology fit for its network. enet determined that the Calix E7-2 ESAP was the best fit due to the E7-2\u2019s industry-leading modularity and flexibility, meeting enet\u2019s needs for a scalable solution that could go from smaller scale deployments like Claremorris and grow as customer demand increased.
\nCalix is working in partnership with Irish network systems integrator Agile Networks, a networking specialist already supporting 14 of the top 25 ISPs in Ireland. \u201cThe Calix portfolio is an excellent fit for enet\u2019s needs and we believe introducing this technology into the marketplace will be truly disruptive in allowing greater rollout of fiber services in Ireland. Our partnership with Calix underlines the commitment to combine leading technology with local expertise, which is critical to the success of a national project of this scale and importance,\u201d commented Darragh Richardson, managing director of Agile Networks. <\/p>\n

Calix Advantage Program is a comprehensive program that combines the key tools and services necessary to manage, maintain, and support each customer\u2019s access network. It provides combined network management systems, software upgrades, and technical support across the Calix Unified Access portfolio, which was instrumental in enet\u2019s selection of the Calix solution.<\/p>\n

enet\u2019s network engineering manager Jim Molony said: \u201dWe had looked at a number of vendors to provide a suitable solution for our \u2018fibredirect\u2019 product, and early in the selection process it became clear that the Calix\/Agile partnership was the right fit for enet. With the \u2018bundled\u2019 approach of the Calix Advantage Program, which took out many cost variables, and the straightforward procurement process, it made doing business with Calix and Agile very easy. The scalability options offered with the E7 platform give us the flexibility to grow locations to match rollout needs without disruptive re-provisioning in order to scale up.\u201d
\nMolony added, \u201cDeployment of the Calix solution in Claremorris has proven very successful, with the simplicity with which services could be provisioned on the Calix platform being a major factor. This gives us great confidence in moving forward with \u2018fibredirect\u2019 rollouts to many more locations, and strengthening further our Calix\/Agile relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andy Lockhart, senior vice president, international sales at Calix, said: \u201cenet\u2019s \u2018fibredirect\u2019 is an ambitious and impressive way of allowing Irish businesses to remain competitive in both urban and rural communities and we are pleased to play a key role in this initiative. Our E7 solutions are ideal for this kind of demand- and cost-driven model and we look forward to many further deployments in Ireland.\u201d
\nFor more information about Calix and its Unified Access portfolio, visit the Calix booth (#C20) at Broadband World Forum in Amsterdam, October 21 – 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Irish wholesale telecommunications operator enet chooses Calix for its new open access Fiber-to-the-Business network<\/em><\/p>\n

Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) has today announced that its Calix E7-2 Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP) and P- and T-Series fiber services gateways have been chosen … Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[596,52,35,599,601,597,598,600],"class_list":["post-3902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-andy-lockhart","tag-broadband-world-forum","tag-calix","tag-calix-advantage-program","tag-calix-e7","tag-enet","tag-isp-airspeed-telecom","tag-metropolitan-area-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3903,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions\/3903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}