LIME, the Caribbean's leading communications company, has recently switched over to the EXA Powered Calix (News - Alert) E7-2 Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP) to enhance its mobile backhaul across its footprint in 12 of its Caribbean markets.

This new deployment will enable LIME, the Caribbean's service telecommunications company, to deliver enhanced communication services to governments, businesses, and families in 14 Caribbean countries that have been deploying the Calix Unified Access portfolio widely since 2005.

LIME is utilizing gigabit passive optical network (GPON) and point-to-point gigabit Ethernet (GE) technologies delivered via the E7-2 ESAP to improve the backhaul capacity of its mobile networks throughout the Caribbean, while putting in place an infrastructure flexible enough to allow for future expansion and growth.

This new deployment will allow LIME an opportunity to expand its network and other advanced broadband services from these locations beyond service to cell sites to nearby businesses and homes as well.

“Mobile traffic growth is skyrocketing across the Caribbean, and we needed a scalable solution that we could rapidly deploy in our network to handle a wide variety of interfaces across ANSI and ETSI (News - Alert) standards,” said Patrick Bradd, Chief Technology Officer at LIME.

According to Bradd, Calix mobile backhaul solutions have allowed them to get-to-market quickly, and given them exceptional flexibility, with Ethernet, T1, and E1 termination options at the cell sites, and Ethernet OAM for remote management. He said that it also provides the capacity they will need to rapidly deliver 4G mobile data solutions to their customers.

“As we look forward, we also see this mobile backhaul expansion initiative as very strategic, providing us with a scalable and economic solution for expanding fiber access services well beyond cell sites in the future with minimal investment,” concluded Bradd.

John Colvin, vice president of field operations at Calix said, “This mobile backhaul initiative will pay double dividends to the region, meeting the rising mobile communications traffic requirement while laying a foundation for advanced wireline services in the future. We are honored to have been selected by LIME for this ambitious initiative, and look forward to continuing to play a key role in bringing advanced broadband services to the entire Caribbean region.”

Calix specializes in access innovation and its Unified Access portfolio of broadband communications access systems and software enable communications service providers worldwide to be the broadband provider of choice to their subscribers.

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