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available to us as of the date of this release, and we assume no obligation to revise or update any such
forward-looking statement to reflect any event or circumstance after the date of this release, except as
required by law. Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from current expectations
based on risks and uncertainties affecting Calix’s business. The reader is cautioned not to rely on the
forward-looking statements contained in this press release. Additional information on potential factors that
could affect Calix's results and other risks and uncertainties are detailed in its Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the fiscal year 2015, filed with the SEC and available at www.sec.gov.
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3. This presentation includes forward-looking statements that are based upon management's current
expectations and are inherently uncertain. Forward-looking statements are based upon information
available to us as of the date of this release, and we assume no obligation to revise or update any such
forward-looking statement to reflect any event or circumstance after the date of this release, except as
required by law. Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from current expectations
based on risks and uncertainties affecting Calix’s business. The reader is cautioned not to rely on the
forward-looking statements contained in this press release. Additional information on potential factors that
could affect Calix's results and other risks and uncertainties are detailed in its Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the fiscal year 2015, filed with the SEC and available at www.sec.gov.
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4. This presentation includes forward-looking statements that are based upon management's current
expectations and are inherently uncertain. Forward-looking statements are based upon information
available to us as of the date of this release, and we assume no obligation to revise or update any such
forward-looking statement to reflect any event or circumstance after the date of this release, except as
required by law. Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from current expectations
based on risks and uncertainties affecting Calix’s business. The reader is cautioned not to rely on the
forward-looking statements contained in this press release. Additional information on potential factors that
could affect Calix's results and other risks and uncertainties are detailed in its Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the fiscal year 2015, filed with the SEC and available at www.sec.gov.
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5. 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015
• IPO on NYSE • Occam
acquisition
• EMEA and
Australia
expansion
• Ericsson fiber
access products
acquisition
• Ericsson global
reseller
agreement
• Launched Open
Link Cable
• Introduced
GigaCenter
• Introduced AXOS
platform
• Launched G.fast and
NG-PON2 products
• Expanded
GigaCenter platform
Serving over 1,200 customers in more than 70 countries
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6. Data Center Outside Plant
Broadband
Aggregation
Optimization
Success-based Pay-
as-you-grow
Architecture
Subscriber
Edge
Technology &
Service
Optimization
E3-48C
716E
E7-2
E7-20
E5-48
E5-216F
GigaFamily
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E3-8G
9. FAST. Time to Revenue
Speed of New Features. Individual software components are containerized which simplifies adds /deletes /changes and
eliminates the need to constantly re-test the entire OS, thus maximizing reuse, while leveraging industry standards and
open source software
Speed of New Products. The unique hardware and software abstraction layers (HAL / SAL) preserve software
independence from the underlying hardware and allow rapid development for any new access technology
ALWAYS ON. Resilient
Eliminates maintenance windows through the live upgrade functionality
Minimizes downtime using self-diagnosis, self-healing and process auto-restart
Provides unprecedented visibility into application performance via monitoring and streaming data off the systems to feed
third-party or open source monitoring tools
SIMPLE. Operational ease and flexibility
Plugs into any open standard orchestration and management solution because it supports dynamic “state” manipulation
through standard, open interfaces
Portable across the network with common, stable field deployed components
Rapid delivery of new services, superior customer experience and unparalleled reliability
9
10. Controlled environment
Short lifecycle / Easy to replace
Partially to fully exposed environments
Long lifecycle / Difficult to replace
Data Center Access NetworkData Center Access Networkvs.
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13. 13
• 10 percent of all Americans (34 million people) lack access to 25
Mbps/3 Mbps service
• Wide disparity between urban and rural subscribers
• 4 percent of urban Americans lack access to 25Mbps/3Mbps service
• 39 percent of rural Americans lack access to 25 Mbps/3 Mbps service
• US broadband access ranked 16th out of 34 countries
Source: FCC Broadband in America (January 2015)
14. Source: Morgan Stanley Research, Barclays Research, Nielsen Global Digital Landscape Report March 2015, Nielsen Total Audience 4Q14 Report,
Comscore
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16. 3
1.
2.
3.
4.
Calix at a Glance
Value Shift from Hardware to Software
The Access Market Opportunity
Financials Update
5. Appendix
17. 3
1.
2.
3.
4.
Calix at a Glance
Value Shift from Hardware to Software
The Access Market Opportunity
Financials Update
5. Appendix
18. • Calix is a leader in G.fast technology as the first
company in the world to publicly demonstrate
a true gigabit experience via bonded G.fast
over copper at Broadband World Forum 2015
with speeds up to with 1.5 Gb/s at 250m
• G.fast solutions are ideally suited for short
loops < 500 m and speeds from 150Mb/s to >1
Gb/s
• Per U.S. Census data there are over 34 million
multi-tenant housing units in the U.S. (per 2013
ACS) with an estimated more than 50% of
these units built before 1980
• Aged residential and commercial units are
characterized by difficulties in riser access and
restricted building access
• G.fast provides fiber-like broadband speeds
when fiber is not available
MDU
Riser
GPON/GE
G.fast
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19. CAPEX $25K
CAPEX $8K
OPEX $1K
OPEX $32K
Central
Office
Generic
Home
20
Mbps
MDU
1:32
split
BPON
ONTs
+ 1 GPON system
+ 32 GPON ONTs
+ 2 CO techs (day)
+ 32 techs in field
(simultaneously)
GPON
ONTs
GPON
OLTs
BPON
OLTs
Total cash spend = $66K -- or $2,063 per home
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20. CAPEX $4K
OPEX $120
Home
MDU
1:32
split
BPON
OLTs
GPON
OLTs
BPON
OLTs
+ 1 GPON line card
+ 1 GPON OIM
- 1 BPON trade-in
+ 1 CO tech (2 hrs)
+ 0 techs in field
(no truck roll)
80 Mbps
to 1Gbps
GPON
ONTs
Auto-
detect
PO
ONTs
Central
Office
GPON
OLTs
Total cash spend = $4.12K -- or $128 per home
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24. ($ in millions, except per share amounts)
Actual Guidance
Revenues $105.0 $102.0-$106.0
Non-GAAP gross margin 46.5% 47%-48%
Non-GAAP operating expenses $50.6* $51.5-$52.5
Non-GAAP EPS ($0.03) ($0.07) – ($0.03)
Cash flow from operations ($4.1) Neutral
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*Includes approximately $0.8M of litigation-related expenses
25. Revenues of $105.0M, -6% q/q, -6% y/y
Results at the upper end of $102-$106M guidance
Eighth consecutive quarter at or above revenue guidance range
Non-GAAP Gross margins decrease to 46.5%, -1.6% y/y
Higher mix of international revenues
Full-year 2015 gross margins of 49.0%
Non-GAAP EPS loss of ($0.03)
At the high-end of guidance range of ($0.07) – ($0.03) due to lower operating expenses
Eighth consecutive quarter at or above Non-GAAP EPS guidance range
Stock repurchase activity accelerated
Repurchased 2.1M shares at an average cost of $7.67 per share
$12.8M remains on $40M stock repurchase authorization
Launched the era of Software Defined Access with the introduction of AXOS
Other major product announcements included
Accelerated fiber migration with the launch of the Node-Based E3-8G
Demonstrated bonded G.fast at speeds in excess of 1 gigabit per second
Breakthrough VDSL2 system level vectoring solutions on the E7-2 modular access system
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26. 26
Full-year 2015 revenues +2% y/y
Strength across multiple customers, products and
geographies
2011-15 CAGR of 4.2% as customer & country count
increase as well as market share gains at key existing
accounts
Product platforms poised to contribute to future growth
Full-year 2015 gross margins increase on mix and platform
leverage
Full-year gross margins of 49.0%, +230bps y/y and +530bps
since 2011
Favorable product mix as well as improved operating
efficiency
Unified Access architecture platform drives improved cost
leverage
27. Eighth consecutive quarter of reported revenues in-
line or better than guidance
Visibility remains challenged amid uneven customer spending
environment
New product offerings as well as improved customer value
proposition driving revenues
Non-GAAP EPS at or above guidance for eighth
consecutive quarter
Continued shift to software-centric platform and product-
specific momentum drives annual improvement in gross
profits
Some timing shifts in operating expenses added to improved
near-term earnings
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32. PARTNERSPARTNERSSALESSALESENGINEERINGENGINEERING
LEVERAGE
Solve a hard problem
once
Reuse successful
components
Leverage silicon
innovation
Can integrate
Open Source
value
CUSTOMERSCUSTOMERS
VALUE
Consistent
Behavior
Service Resiliency
Workflow Simplicity
Upgradability
( features + fixes)
Reduce OPEX
PORTFOLIO EFFECT
Cross-selling and pull-
through sales
Sell once, train once
Solution Delivery
End to End
Reduce Cost of Sales
INTEGRATION
Tighter integration
Broader
opportunities
Round out the
portfolio
Solution Ecosystem
versus larger
vendors
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33. Infrastructure
Layer
Protocol Framework
Layer
Protocol and
Services Layer
User Interface
Layer
Policy and
Management Layer
Hardware Abstraction Layer
AXOS
Merchant Silicon / New Technology
Decoupled hardware and software, loosely coupled components
Simplistic 3-layer model
transformed to fine-grained
independent software components
abstracted from the physical layer
Support for 3rd party components
with internal and external APIs
DATA PLANE
CONTROL PLANE
MANAGEMENT PLANE
D1 D2 D3 D4
C1 C2 C3 C4
B1 B2 B3 B4
A1 A2 A3 A4
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34. Source: AT&T Vision Alignment Challenge Technology Survey, AT&T Domain 2.0 Vision White Paper, November 13, 2013
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35. Source: “Evaluating “The State of the State” of Virtualization, Light Reading, June 2015
NFV requires faster broadband
connections, driven by shared
functionality between the data
center and the subscriber edge
SDN demands flexible, rapidly
deployable software
applications in order to provide
customer friendly solutions on
demand
The key differentiator for a
systems vendor is to have an
operating system that
facilitates network operators’
flexible deployment of software
applications across their
networks as well as in customer
specific situations
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36. “…to capture the cost saving and revenue generating potential of SDN
and NFV, communications service providers (CSPs) have to embrace new
ways of achieving traditional objectives...What that requires of vendors
is to design network platforms and applications that evolve so that they
no longer rely on the hardware providing the reliability but instead are
designed to assume the probability of hardware failures and perform
failover in software instead”
“A significant part of the value proposition of a more software-centric
network is that it enables CSPs to respond much more rapidly to both
network conditions and customer demands.”
Source: Evaluating “The State of the State” of Virtualization, Hewlett-Packard, Light Reading, Heavy Reading (July 2015)
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38. 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015
• IPO on NYSE • Occam
acquisition
• EMEA and
Australia
expansion
• Ericsson fiber
access products
acquisition
• Ericsson global
reseller
agreement
• Launched Open
Link Cable
• Introduced
GigaCenter
• Introduced AXOS
platform
• Launched G.fast and
NG-PON2 products
• Expanded
GigaCenter platform
Serving over 1,200 customers in more than 70 countries
5
39. 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015
• IPO on NYSE • Occam
acquisition
• EMEA and
Australia
expansion
• Ericsson fiber
access products
acquisition
• Ericsson global
reseller
agreement
• Launched Open
Link Cable
• Introduced
GigaCenter
• Introduced AXOS
platform
• Launched G.fast and
NG-PON2 products
• Expanded
GigaCenter platform
Serving over 1,200 customers in more than 70 countries
5
40. 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015
• IPO on NYSE • Occam
acquisition
• EMEA and
Australia
expansion
• Ericsson fiber
access products
acquisition
• Ericsson global
reseller
agreement
• Launched Open
Link Cable
• Introduced
GigaCenter
• Introduced AXOS
platform
• Launched G.fast and
NG-PON2 products
• Expanded
GigaCenter platform
Serving over 1,200 customers in more than 70 countries
5
41. Source: Telecom & Networking Equipment, The FTTP Renaissance, Implications for
Vendors – Jefferies Group LLC May 6, 2015
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43. 43
45% of survey respondents currently deploying fiber cover at least
50% of customers with FTTH solutions (41% in 2013)
67% of survey respondents plan to offer FTTH to at least 50% of
customers by 2017
85% of survey respondents have a long-term fiber deployment
strategy with
74% of survey respondents plan to offer FTTN to more than 75% of
customers by 2017
25% of survey respondents have already completed fiber deployments to
100% of customers
Source: NTCA 2014 Broadband/Internet Availability Survey Report, June 2015.
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