- Subscribers
- Education
- Organizations
- Visitors
- First responders
With community wide Wi-Fi, your customers have access to private, safe and secure Wi-Fi even when they are away from home. Extend your brand and your service to your entire service area.
Take your Wi-Fi with you
As part of your subscribers' Wi-Fi service, they can now bring their connectivity with them—in town, at school or in the park, they are always connected.
No data? No worries
Enjoy video chat, streaming and Instagram Live without the constraint of cellular data caps. SmartTown® brings unfettered internet without the dreaded throttling.
Security and control
The same Wi-Fi and content control subscribers have at home can follow them when they connect to the community network.
Put community-wide connectivity into the hands of students and educators – wherever their day takes them. Expand coverage by optionally joining the global eduroam Wi-Fi roaming alliance where available.
Safe and secure
Keeping kids safe online is critical. Integrate the latest network security and content filtering to provide a private, secure, and safe experience for students on-the-go.
Pre-authenticate with Passpoint
Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Passpoint® is an industry-wide solution that streamlines Wi-Fi access and eliminates the need for users to find and authenticate a network each time they visit.
Deploy Eduroam
With eduroam, students stay connected beyond your footprint.
Keeping organizations connected beyond the front door and across your footprint sets your communities up for success. Enable plus municipal, private, and non-profit organizations to leverage Wi-Fi on-the-go across the city, within their housing associations, and everywhere people work, learn, and play.
On-the-go municipal staff
Empower city workers, and community staff with HD video conferencing, and high-speed access to online applications without consuming expensive 5G/LTE bandwidth and in areas where 5G/LTE is not available.
Micro-communities
Create unique private Wi-Fi communities for organizations, housing associations, apartment buildings, mobile health clinics, and just about any group with long-term membership.
Evolving models for virtual learning
Enable BSPs to offer E-Rate services for eligible schools and libraries so they can obtain affordable internet access under the FCC E-Rate program.
Bring people together and foster a sense of community by providing community Wi-Fi downtown, at events, and in public spaces like community centers and libraries.
Boost economic development
Community Wi-Fi can help local businesses and entrepreneurs grow and thrive by giving them access to new customers and markets.
Bridge the Digital Divide
Enable people in your community to access information and educational tools, search job boards, and participate in online activities that they might not otherwise have access to.
Boost community pride
Show your community members that they are valued and cared for by providing them Internet access in public spaces.
Offer rapid connectivity to first responders and other emergency support organizations to provide vital communications in places where cellular coverage is poor or highly saturated. Leverage network for public safety IoT (hidden SSID on dedicated APs)
Service Your Communities
Secure and reliable community-wide Wi-Fi provides critical communication lines for first responders, and ensure deputies have the backup they need in crucial moments.
Authenticated and access-controlled Wi-Fi experience
Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Passpoint® is an industry-wide solution that streamlines Wi-Fi access and eliminates the need for users to find and authenticate a network each time they visit. Controlled access allows staff to come and go without permanent Wi-Fi access.
No Data, No Worries
Empowers first responders to communicate with dispatch, hospitals and other emergency service organizations even when there is no or limited cellular coverage
Private, safe and secure
Built upon the Wi-Fi Alliance Passpoint architecture and secured with ProtectIQ and ExperienceIQ, SmartTown utilizes the latest network security and content filtering to provide a private, secure, and safe experience for on-the-go subscribers.
Ubiquitous, secure, managed Wi-Fi experiences across a community… a “Smart Town”
Managed subscriber experience via Calix Cloud, integrated into OSS/BSS
Multiple domains (communities) to easily support subscribers, schools, municipalities, organizations, MDUs, and more
Calix GigaSpire® BLAST and GigaPro™ Wi-Fi systems* can be activated to deploy a SmartTown network. Providers can supplement the existing base of residential systems (typically GigaSpire BLAST systems) by strategically adding outdoor access points in public gathering spots. The Calix GigaPro series is designed for outdoor use and able to extend Wi-Fi over longer distances, helping BSPs establish community-wide WiFi coverage.
Learn more about technical implmenation in this overview document.
The help and guidance you need to connect your community and protect your brand. Calix Professional Services helps you plan and validate the capacity, coverage, and performance of your network with SmartTown On-site Wi-Fi Design and SmartTown Managed Service Validation
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Solution brief
Engagement Cloud
Make every interaction with subscribers count with insights that enable you to deliver the experiences they want while growing brand value.
Service Cloud
Simplify support and improve operational efficiency to deliver an exceptional subscriber experience with service excellence.
Operations Cloud
Transform broadband operations into a subscriber experience differentiator with insights, predictive analytics, and automation.
GigaPro Systems
Enterprises, cities and communities can simplify implementaion and accelerate time to revenue, seamlessly working with the Calix Broadband Platform.
ProtectIQ
Allow your subscribers to lock down all entry points to the home network and keep subscribers safe from thousands of attacks and breaches of privacy.
ExperienceIQ
Allow subscribers to easily create and enforce online rules for the users and devices in their home networks.