Calix has added two more towns to its list municipal customers: the city of Sandy, OR, and the village of Sebewaing, MI.
Both are deploying the Calix E7-2 Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP) to deliver broadband speeds of up to 1 Gbps to residential and business subscribers.
SandyNet Fiber is a municipal broadband utility that began as a wireless ISP. The city began construction of its fiber access network in May 2014 and has been offering gigabit services since September of this year, Calix said.
SandyNet Fiber is offering a 100 Mbps tier at $40 a month, and 1Gbps at $60 a month. In either case, phone service is an additional $20. The company is in the process of adding TV service.
Sandy is also installing Calix’s Carrier-Class Wi-Fi enabled 844G GigaCenters, which provide 802.11ac Wi-Fi technology with 4×4 multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) to deliver wireless broadband coverage throughout subscribers’ homes.
Sandy, about 25 miles east of Portland, has about 10,000 residents.
Already known as the “Sugar Beet Capital,” Sebewaing, is a village of 1,800 people on Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay.
Sebewaing Light and Water (SLW), which also had previously operated as a wireless ISP, is now offering four tiers of broadband data services, peaking at gigabit speeds, as well as voice service to residential and business customers in conjunction with deployment partner Air Advantage.
“Our fiber-to-the-home project has moved along very quickly,” said Melanie McCoy, Sebewaing Light and Water Superintendent. “It took just over one year from the time we issued our first RFP to when we started turning up our first customers. We knew that citizens were craving higher speeds, but demand has exceeded our expectations.”
Calix said that both are the first to deliver gigabit services in their respective states.