Calix Recognizes Innovative Partners Helping Service Providers Transform Their Business, Achieve Breakthrough Growth, and Create Value for Their Communities

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Calix held its 2022 Partner Innovations Awards at ConneXions 2022, honoring partners for exceptional contributions to broadband service delivery. Key awards included:

• Partner of the Year: GLDS for innovative integration.
• Strategic Partnership Award: Conexon for excellence with service providers.
• Partner Impact Award: Vantage Point Solutions for securing $3 billion in funding.
• Partner Innovation Award: Camvio for delivering rapid proof of concepts.
• Market Activation Partner Award: Pivot for cutting campaign launch times by 60%.
• Training Achievement Award: JSI for completing the most training.

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• Recognition of key partners signals strong collaborative relationships.
• Vantage Point Solutions secured $3 billion in funding for network business.
• GLDS integration completed in under 45 days, enhancing service delivery.

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Calix recognizes its visionary, innovative, and dedicated partners who help broadband service providers simplify their businesses, excite their subscribers, and grow their value in their communities

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) paid tribute to their partner community by presenting the 2022 Partner Innovations Awards at ConneXions 2022. The Calix Partner Innovations Awards are given at ConneXions to Calix channel and solution partners who have made extraordinary contributions throughout the year. This year’s awards honor partners who have simplified service delivery and helped build and grow new broadband businesses. They have secured funding and built data delivery systems. They have improved go-to-market and completed the latest Calix training. Most of all, they have partnered with service providers to accelerate the ability to grow their business, shorten their time-to-market, and delight customers with additional opportunities for growth.

The 2022 Partner Innovations Awards winners are:

• Partner of the Year: GLDS. This award recognizes a partner for their overall business performance, the innovation they have brought to business and technology, and their beneficial impact. By aligning application programming interface portfolios, GLDS radically simplified service delivery across the entire joint solution. They completed the integration in under 45 days and were in the market in record time.
• Strategic Partnership Award: Conexon. This award recognizes a partner for their excellence in collaboration and dedication to driving significant outcomes for our mutual customers. Conexon partners with nearly 100 service providers across the country, delivering solutions enabling them to plan, build, launch, and operate successful fiber broadband systems.
• Partner Impact Award: Vantage Point Solutions. This award recognizes a partner whose accomplishments have had a substantial positive impact on customers and the industry. Thanks to consulting and engineering partner Vantage Point Solutions’ tireless commitment to education, advocacy, and thought leadership, they secured nearly $3 billion in funding for new network business together with Calix service providers.
• Partner Innovation Award: Camvio. This award recognizes a visionary partner for their commitment to delivering innovative solutions that help service providers reimagine the way they run their businesses and serve their subscribers. Camvio built an integration with CommandIQ® and Calix Cloud® that enables the seamless delivery of data between their BSS/OSS solution and the Calix Revenue EDGE™ platform. Their integration enables them to deliver proof of concepts to customers in less than 48 hours.
• Market Activation Partner Award: Pivot. This award recognizes a partner for delivering innovative marketing campaigns promoting support and services that are designed to accelerate go-to-market and excite subscribers. Leading broadband marketing and CX agency Pivot Group cut customer campaign launch times by 60 percent. They leveraged Calix Market Activation program assets to create new campaigns for service providers launching managed services and networks for new subscribers.
• Training Achievement Award: JSI. This award recognizes a partner who has achieved success in training and enablement with the latest technical courses in the Calix Training program. JSI’s extraordinary effort led to them being awarded the first Partner Training Achievement Award. They sought out the latest training and completed more classes than any other Calix partner in 2022.

“Partners are critical to helping our customers grow value for themselves and their communities,” said Matt Collins, executive vice president of commercial operations and chief marketing officer at Calix. “Innovators that are transforming our industry cannot do it alone. Calix and our customers are blessed to work with such a dedicated and capable set of partners who are committed to the success of our community. These are the innovative, visionary companies leading the way to transform the broadband industry. Thank you to all of our 2022 partner Innovations Award winners for their leadership and their innovation.”

Visit Calix Partner Innovations Awards to find out more about our innovative partners and how they support Calix service providers.

About Calix

Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX)—Calix cloud and software platforms enable service providers of all types and sizes to innovate and transform. Our customers utilize the real-time data and insights from Calix platforms to simplify their businesses and deliver experiences that excite their subscribers. The resulting growth in subscriber acquisition, loyalty, and revenue creates more value for their businesses and communities. This is the Calix mission: To enable broadband service providers of all sizes to simplify, excite, and grow.

This press release contains forward-looking statements that are based upon management’s current expectations and are inherently uncertain. Forward-looking statements are based upon information available to us as of the date of this release, and we assume no obligation to revise or update any such forward-looking statement to reflect any event or circumstance after the date of this release, except as required by law. Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from current expectations based on risks and uncertainties affecting Calix’s business. The reader is cautioned not to rely on the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. Additional information on potential factors that could affect Calix’s results and other risks and uncertainties are detailed in its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC and available at www.sec.gov.

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Source: Calix, Inc.

FAQ

What are the key awards presented by Calix in 2022?

Calix presented awards such as Partner of the Year to GLDS, Strategic Partnership Award to Conexon, and Partner Impact Award to Vantage Point Solutions.

How much funding was secured by Vantage Point Solutions?

Vantage Point Solutions secured nearly $3 billion in funding for new network business.

What did GLDS achieve to win the Partner of the Year award?

GLDS was recognized for its innovative integration that simplified service delivery and went to market quickly.

Which partner won the Market Activation Partner Award?

The Market Activation Partner Award was won by Pivot Group for cutting customer campaign launch times by 60%.

What significant impact did Conexon have as a partner?

Conexon collaborated with nearly 100 service providers to drive successful fiber broadband systems.