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NextLight leveraging Calix SmartBiz enabling rapid SME innovation
NextLight – a municipally owned broadband service provider( BSP) – is leveraging Calix SmartBiz and the Calix Broadband Platform as their comprehensive small business service solution for Longmont, Colorado – the state’ s first“ Gig City.”
NextLight is now helping support local economic growth with SmartBiz, a purposebuilt managed service to enhance productivity, efficiency, and security for small businesses.
SmartBiz outdoor capabilities also enabled NextLight to partner with the Longmont Climbing Collective to host an international ice climbing competition— drawing global athletes, large crowds and more than 40 local vendors, showcasing the power of connected small businesses.
“ Longmont’ s small businesses have been asking for a straightforward, easy-to-manage Wi-Fi system, and this allows us to serve that need better than ever,” said Valerie Dodd, Executive Director, NextLight.
“ With SmartBiz, we reached 80 % of our new subscriber goal in just 60 days. This year, we aim to double that. SmartBiz also makes it easy for us to provide Wi-Fi at local events with dedicated networks for attendees, vendors and even livestreams. It’ s better broadband for business and that’ s good for the whole community.”
Since SmartBiz is fully integrated with the Calix Platform, it is also fast to deploy and easy to manage for BSPs.
With hands-on guidance from Calix Success, NextLight launched SmartBiz last October and smashed their first-year subscriber goal in fewer than six months, connecting businesses like coffee shops, law offices, and manufacturers, as well as nonprofits like houses of worship. The
Sixty-five per cent of organizations planning to adopt intelligent maintenance solutions by 2026
MaintainX, the leading maintenance and asset management platform, today released its second annual State of Industrial Maintenance report, revealing how teams are leveraging AI and shifting strategies to tackle the ongoing talent shortage and surging repair costs.
Based on insights from 1,320 maintenance professionals across the US and Canada, the report reveals that industrial maintenance is undergoing a major transformation.
“ Industrial maintenance is shifting from reactive troubleshooting to strategic futureproofing,” said Chris Turlica, CEO and cofounder, MaintainX.
“ While facilities are making impressive progress reducing downtime incidents, they’ re simultaneously battling increased costs and expertise gaps.”
AI is rapidly gaining traction as a core component of industrial maintenance programs. The report reveals that 65 % of organizations expect to implement AI-powered maintenance solutions by 2026. Currently, 44 % have either adopted or are piloting AI technologies, with another 21 % evaluating options or planning implementation in the next 12 months.
Notably, companies experiencing more downtime than expected are more than twice as likely to fully implement AI across multiple maintenance processes( 40 %) than those with less downtime( 18 %).
“ It’ s telling that companies experiencing higher-than-expected downtime are twice as likely to fully implement AI across their maintenance processes. Organizations are recognizing that AI doesn’ t just reduce breakdowns— it preserves critical knowledge as experienced workers retire, which addresses the industry’ s most pressing challenge.” said Turlica.
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