Calix Teams up with Infy to Scale up AXOS Offerings

NYSE-listed Calix has teamed up with Infosys, to jointly invest and to co-create new services and value-added offerings on the award winning AXOS platform. The new partnership will enable service providers to accelerate deployments of next generation access networks, by bringing down time-to-market for new AXOS capabilities and greatly broadening AXOS offerings. The move eventually aims at dramatically reducing their operating cost and enable them to deploy new services at a rapid pace.

Talking about the new association, Carl Russo, President and CEO at Calix, said, “Having a global technology leader like Infosys as our maiden co-creation partner is an honor in itself and it speaks directly to the dramatic leverage our customers get when they deploy the AXOS platform. Mind you that Infosys shares our vision for the future of the universal, unified access network and understands the value of a collaborative, standards-based and open approach to innovation. Our journey to create the world’s only Software Defined Access platform has been challenging and exciting. And this is the next major step in that journey.”

Utilizing this new partnership, Infosys will develop and deliver new software modules for the AXOS platform. Significantly, with these new capabilities, service providers can reduce the cost of operating their networks, improve network intelligence and deliver improved subscriber experiences. The fully abstracted, modular, standards-based architecture of the AXOS platform makes it an ideal innovation platform for technology leaders, who want to deliver breakthrough capabilities to CSPs.

Ravi Kumar, President and Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Infosys, said, “The digital revolution, driven by the proliferation of devices and hyper connectivity, has forced nearly every organization to reassess their core business and operating models. The rapid digitization of business processes has also opened up new opportunities for organizations to innovate and create new products and services that address unmet customer needs. We are evolving our business model by partnering with innovators such as Calix that can leverage our market scale, unparalleled expertise, and deployment capabilities to help our customers digitize their businesses. For our CSP customers, we will extend the capabilities of AXOS to help them remain essential to their subscribers. Ultimately, our goal is to help them transform their access and subscriber networks, evolve their business models and generate entirely new revenue streams.”

It may be mentioned here that Calix has been pursuing the vision of the unified access network for nearly a decade now and AXOS delivers on the promise of the software defined network. Interestingly, with AXOS, any CSP can deliver all services on a single, elastic network that is always on. Because AXOS is a standards-based, modular software platform, Calix is creating a vibrant ecosystem that will fast extend and expand the capabilities, which are available to CSPs via the platform.