Calix, a global access innovation company, has announced that the Halstad Telephone Company (HTC) has deployed its EXA Powered E7-20 multi-terabit Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP) in the Norman and Polk Counties of northwestern Minnesota.
E7-20 ESAP Multi-Terabit Chassis
The deployment would provide sophisticated broadband services to the underserved subscribers in the rural areas and towns of the counties.
HTC is the first company to deploy the Calix E7-20 ESAP in its network. The E7-20 is a 2 Tbps access, all-fiber, low latency, high capacity concentrator designed for video consumption. It would support the requirements of the next generation of Internet that would have more of Internet protocol video streams that need to be delivered over fiber access. The E7-20 concentrator has the ability to deliver throughput in gigabit speeds to all subscribers belonging to the network. It can symmetrically deliver 100 Gbps throughput to the 20 universal line card slots.
HTC is utilizing both Active Ethernet (AE) and gigabit passive optical network (GPON) technologies to deliver reliable session initiation protocol (SIP) VOIP services, 1 Gbps high-speed business and residential data services and IPTV services. The company is deploying the E7-20 ESAP together with the E5-120 Ethernet Service Access Node (ESAN), the family of 700GE/GX ONTs and the E7-2 ESAP. The auto-detect technology in the 700GE/GX ONT and support for AE and GPON technologies provides flexibility to consumers and HTC. Using the same methodology, HTC can match the appropriate technology to the required service.