ALLO Communications Launches Bark Social Media Monitoring in Days To Support Parents in 36 Communities via the Calix Platform

Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced that longtime customer ALLO Communications (ALLO) is leveraging the end-to-end Calix platform to rapidly deploy Bark, an AI-enabled social media monitoring managed service. ALLO is scaling Bark across the 36 communities they serve in Nebraska, Colorado, and Arizona to reach approximately 18,000 households.

By launching Bark, ALLO is giving thousands of parents and caregivers an immediate and impactful tool to address the documented harm social media poses to children’s mental health. Because Bark is pre-integrated for Revenue EDGE on the full Calix platform, the ALLO team quickly launched the solution in days. Only the unique capabilities of the Calix cloud and software platform enable broadband service providers (BSPs) to lead the way in creating safer internet experiences at scale—while optimizing operational expense (OPEX)—and protecting the most vulnerable members of their communities.

“ALLO proudly makes investments to serve our communities and transform them into better places to live, work, and play,” said Brad Moline, president and chief executive officer at ALLO. “We choose to offer Bark to work closely with parents and schools in doing everything possible to help children thrive in a highly digital world. Because Bark is pre-integrated with the Calix platform, we launched it in days as a marketing initiative with almost zero engineering involvement. Custom integration would have taken months. Bark is a great step forward for the communities and families we serve.”

Calix Customer Success Services (Customer Success) worked with ALLO to accelerate time to market on their Bark launch and rollout. Working closely with their Customer Success specialist, ALLO quickly prepared to amplify the value of Bark with tailored outreach to subscribers and schools.

Formed in partnership with award-winning online safety leader Bark Technologies, the Bark managed service monitors text messages, email, and more than 30 of the most popular apps and social media platforms. This eliminates the need for parents to comb through messages and preserves children’s privacy. Bark sends parents and guardians alerts with expert recommendations from child psychologists so they can immediately and effectively address issues.

Calix-partnered BSPs are adopting Bark to become a first line of defense for child online safety, scaling this critical solution to protect even more families—at home, school, and virtually everywhere. With Bark on the Calix platform, customers like ALLO can: