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AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2015
COMMUNITY BROADBAND SPOTLIGHT
Companies Whose Offerings
Support Fiber for the New Economy
Calix
W: www.calix.com
Calix is a global leader in access innovation
and North America's leading provider of fber
access solutions, systems, software and services.
Municipalities and utilities worldwide leverage
Calix fber access expertise to become the
broadband service providers of choice to their
subscribers. Visit www.calix.com for more
information.
Charles Industries
P: 847-806-8300
W: www.charlesindustries.com
Charles Industries' "Innovative Enclosed
Solutions" play a vital role in protecting the
infrastructure assets of the fber networks
that form the backbone of the new economy.
Service providers rely on Charles fber pedestals,
terminals, enclosures, interconnects and
cross-connects to house and protect fber splice
and drop points along the entire distribution
network. With a wide array of both indoor and
outdoor solutions, Charles' fber enclosures
protect the routers, multiplexers, radios, smart
meters, battery backup systems and other
essential wireline and wireless network elements
of new economy communications systems.
Charles CUBE metallic enclosures,
CFBT/CFIT building terminals, CFRS rack
solutions, nonmetallic CDFP/BDO distribution
pedestals, CFXC cross-connects and CFIT-
Flex universal enclosures together provide a
full line of environmentally protected solutions
for deploying fber in both outside plant and
in-building environments. Charles designs each
solution for compactness, fexibility in fber
splicing methods and materials, reliability, ease
of deployment and lowest life cycle cost.
Clearfeld
P: 800-422-2537
W: www.SeeClearfeld.com
Looking for a better way to consolidate, protect
and distribute fber? Clearfeld's approach
to fber management promises scalable
deployment, craft-friendly operation and
unsurpassed performance.
Plug-and-play solutions are called upon to
reduce labor at the time of installation. But
traditional plug-and-play solutions put an added
burden on network design, requiring extensive
site engineering to ensure proper lengths are
called out. Te new frontier in plug-and-play
is Clearfeld's labor-lite technologies that are
more forgiving in the required pre-engineering.
Labor-lite products take the reduced need for
labor and skill level needed all the way back to
the pre-engineering stage.
Laying out the backbone of the network
with Clearfeld's FieldShield Pushable Fiber,
FieldShield StrongFiber (the industry's frst