RS Fiber and HBC Partnership Selects Calix to Deliver Gigabit Services
Calix, Inc. Press Release
AUSTIN, TX – April 14, 2015 – Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced that the RS Fiber Cooperative (RS Fiber) has partnered with Hiawatha Broadband Communications (HBC) to bring a gigabit broadband experience to 10 cities and 17 townships across four counties in south central Minnesota using Calix systems and software. Leveraging some of the same traditional financial and business mechanisms that brought electricity to rural areas, these communities have taken a collaborative funding approach that leverages a unique public-private partnership to deliver an affordable fiber-optic broadband network to the region.
