CDE Lightband Accelerates Small Business Growth, Deploying Calix SmartBiz in Just Six Weeks To Quickly Surpass First-Year Goals

Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced that CDE Lightband, a municipally owned broadband service provider (BSP) in Clarksville, Tennessee, is achieving rapid success with Calix SmartBiz and the Calix Broadband Platform, redefining how they serve local small businesses. Supported by the simplicity of SmartBiz and a robust growth strategy, CDE Lightband is rapidly expanding their small business footprint while fueling new investment and innovation across Clarksville’s economy.

With hands-on guidance from the award-winning Calix Success organization, the CDE Lightband team deployed SmartBiz in just six weeks—quickly surpassing first-year subscriber goals and laying the foundation for continued expansion to reach at least half of existing small business subscribers.

SmartBiz, integrated for the Calix Platform, enables BSPs to deliver secure, managed Wi-Fi purpose-built for small businesses. It combines business-grade security, dedicated networks, and integrated network resiliency to simplify management for both BSPs and their small business subscribers. At ConneXions 2025, Calix introduced the most recent SmartBiz enhancements—including the GP5G plug-and-play 5G access point for automatic cellular backup and new managed switches for unified network management—fully integrated with the new agentic AI-enabled next-generation Calix Platform.

To accelerate the adoption and optimization of SmartBiz, CDE Lightband established a dedicated small business organization across sales, engineering, and support. Partnering with Calix Success, the BSP made SmartBiz a standard feature in every bundle—delivering the security and reliability small businesses demand while simplifying purchasing, driving immediate value, and strengthening their 40–45 percent market share.

The CDE Lightband business sales team helps ensure SmartBiz reaches every new small business subscriber, while standardized Calix GigaSpire Wi-Fi system installations and Calix Service Cloud management drive faster troubleshooting, fewer truck rolls, and secure, consistent connectivity. By combining SmartBiz’s simplicity with Calix Success best practices like focused teams and a bundled offer strategy, CDE Lightband has created a scalable blueprint any BSP can replicate to accelerate small business growth.