Calyx is the leading provider of software and systems for broadband communication. This helps Broadband Service Providers (BSPs) offer businesses, homeowners, and renters internet services.
The company was founded in 1999 in San Jose and offers BSPs cloud, software platforms, and systems. It has adopted an innovative strategy based on industry standards, which helps it stay ahead of its competition and provide benefits to BSPs and its customers.
Interoperability is the primary advantage of industry standards. Calyx uses several independent guidelines to ensure its equipment is compatible with other BSPs and products made by different manufacturers.
The broadband industry needs interoperability to encourage competition, innovation and deliver high-quality services.
Calyx guarantees that all its products, services, and certifications meet the highest security, quality, and reliability standards by adhering to industry standards such as BBF TR-369 and ITU-T protocols.
This is important because the broadband industry is constantly evolving. Adherence to standards is a sign that BSPs can keep up with this change.
Calyx adheres to industry standards, ensuring its products and service are future-proof. New protocols are constantly emerging in the broadband industry. Following those standards ensures that BSPs can adopt new technologies when available.
Calyx maintains its relevance and ability to meet the changing needs of BSPs, and their customers by staying ahead of this curve.
Standardize Services and Sustainability
Calyx’s industry-standard strategy allows providers to provide a broader range of services.
Calyx, for example, allows BSPs, through its endorsement of the WiFi Alliance certification program, to offer advanced WiFi services, such as WiFi 6 and WiFi 7 — which is expected to be certified by early 2024. These advanced WiFi technologies deliver faster speeds, better coverage, and greater capacity to end users.
Calyx’s commitment to industry standards allows service providers to deploy technologies faster and more efficiently. Calyx’s commitment to industry standards will enable BSPs to offer faster speeds while using less power. This reduces their carbon footprint and contributes to a sustainable future.
The BSPs can remain competitive by providing their clients with faster and improved services without incurring significant costs.
Calyx’s commitment to industry standards also offers its subscribers enhanced privacy and security features. Calyx adheres to ITU-T PON Standards, ensuring its equipment uses advanced cryptography technologies to secure communications over fiber optic cables. This gives end users a more private and secure broadband experience.
Calyx’s approach toward industry standards aligns with its sustainability commitment. Calyx adheres to these independent protocols to ensure that its products and service are designed to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. Calyx’s commitment to TR-369, the technical standard known as User Services Platform (USP), is another excellent example of its industry standards.
TR-369 can be described as an application-layer protocol that allows BSPs and users to manage connected consumer and enterprise products remotely. This standard is a follow-up of the TR-069 Protocol, released by BSPs and end users in 2004. It helped remote manage modems, routers, and gateways at a time when most homes only had one or two computers.
TR-369 is a more scalable solution for managing the lifecycle of IoT and smart devices in homes today, with 25 or more devices often connected. It also facilitates interoperability among providers.
Closing Thoughts
Calyx’s strategy of industry standards is an essential advantage for BSPs. Calyx’s industry standards strategy is a significant advantage for BSPs.
BSPs can benefit from a broader range of services, faster, more efficiently, and with greater security and privacy. The result will be a better broadband experience for users. This will promote innovation, competition, and a sustainable future in the broadband industry.
Bob Carrick, Global Strategic Lead for the Calyx Cloud on my podcast, recently explained why the company thinks that open industry standards are essential to the success of its broadband service providers and subscribers.
This crucial dialogue needs to get the attention it deserves, especially in light of BSPs’ increased focus on resources, creativity, and energy to offer more value to customers.
Since the dawning of the industrial era, industry standards have played a vital role in ensuring infrastructure, products, and services are reliable and high-quality while promoting innovation.
As charming as they may appear today, it isn’t easy to imagine building an airport, a building, or any other public works project without standards that enhance scalability and cost-efficiency.
Unfortunately, these independent protocols lose their benefits when one company controls the standard and forces users to use its products or services.
Apple and Windows are two examples of competing industry standards. iPhone users are forced to remain in the Apple ecosystem, while Windows users do not have the same advantages. Windows users with iPhones would be penalized in this scenario, and their productivity would be limited.
A standardization approach in the industry drives innovation to an impossible level when one company owns it. This also allows BSPs to differentiate themselves by customizing their offerings for homeowners, tenants, and small business owners in an environmentally friendly manner.
To understand how far the industry has progressed in the last 41 years, we only have to think back to when the Bell System was in operation (e.g., limited competition, high pricing, few offerings, and little innovation). Do we want to go back then? Not if Calyx can help it.