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CBS Selects AI-Native Calix One To Transform How 8 Rural Cooperatives Win Across Residential, Business, and Multifamily Properties
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 16, 2026--Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced that Consolidated Business Services, LLC (CBS)—a shared services organization supporting eight rural broadband cooperatives across Oregon—has selected the AI-native Calix One™ platform and Calix Agent Workforce™ Cloud to extend and accelerate their differentiated experiences strategy for residential, business, and multi-dwelling unit (MDU) properties. Leveraging secure agentic capabilities, CBS will make their member coope
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As their member cooperatives compete and win—including DirectLink exceeding SmartBiz adoption expectations by 64 percent and SMTA enhancing Wi-Fi experiences—Consolidated Business Services invests in Calix Agent Workforce Cloud to help members scale expertise and deliver greater value SAN JOSE, Calif., July 16, 2026 --( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced that Consolidated Business Services, LLC (CBS)—a shared services organization supporting eight rural broadband cooperatives across Oregon—has selected the AI-native Calix One ™ platform and Calix Agent Workforce™ Cloud to extend and accelerate their differentiated experiences strategy for residential, business, and multi-dwelling unit (MDU) properties. Leveraging secure agentic capabilities , CBS will make their member cooperatives even more competitive, to dramatically lower costs and scale the impact of marketing, support, and operations teams while growing their individual brands and increasing value for their local communities. Spanning their eight member cooperatives— DirectLink , Stayton Cooperative Telephone Company , Gervais Telephone Company , Scio Mutual Telephone Association (SMTA), Beaver Creek Cooperative Telephone Company , Clear Creek Communications , Pioneer Connect , and St. Paul Cooperative Telephone Association —CBS has a 10-year record of driving strong business outcomes with the Calix platform. DirectLink exceeded SmartBiz ™ business subscriber adoption expectations by 64 percent , while SMTA enhanced service quality and performance by launching Calix GigaSpire ® appliances to streamline delivery of Wi-Fi 6E experiences . Paul Hauer, president and chief executive officer at CBS and DirectLink, said: "CBS exists to help our members access opportunities they might not have on their own. Throughout our partnership with Calix, particularly over the past five years, we've worked to help rural cooperatives build and share expertise, rapidly adopt, deploy, and manage experiences for subscribers, and lower operational costs. As AI delivers an unprecedented opportunity for transformation across our industry, the Calix One platform, agentic workflows, and collaborative agents will only accelerate how our members deliver secure, connected experiences that outperform larger competitors across residential, business, and emerging MDU markets." CBS members can also take advantage of SmartMDU ™ to help their members simplify the delivery and management of broadband services across MDU properties. As multifamily opportunities become more common across their communities, SmartMDU will enable cooperatives to quickly extend exceptional connected experiences into new connected environments.