Company: CALX
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001406666-25-000011
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Company: CALIX, INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
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 or email may be found in the Notice and on the website referred to in the Notice, including an option to request paper copies prior to the Annual Meeting by April 24, 2025, and thereafter on an ongoing basis until June 8, 2025. On or about March 27, 2025, we are making this Proxy Statement available on the Internet and are mailing the Notice to all stockholders entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. We intend to mail or email this Proxy Statement, together with a proxy card, only to those stockholders entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting who have properly requested paper copies of such materials within three business days of request.

The only voting securities of Calix, Inc. are shares of common stock, $0.025 par value per share (“common stock”), of which there were 66,648,716 shares outstanding as of the Record Date. We need the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock, present or represented by proxy, to hold the Annual Meeting.

In this Proxy Statement, we refer to Calix, Inc. as the “Company,” “Calix,” “we” or “us” and the Board of Directors as the “Board.” When we refer to Calix’s fiscal year, we mean the year ended December 31 of the stated year.

Our 2024 Annual Report to Stockholders, which contains consolidated financial statements for 2024, accompanies this Proxy Statement. Stockholders who received the Notice can access this Proxy Statement and the 2024 Annual Report to Stockholders at the website referred to in the Notice. You also may obtain a copy of our 2024 Annual Report, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), without charge, by writing to our Investor Relations department at the above address. Our 2024 Annual Report and Proxy Statement are also available under “Financials” in the Investor Relations section of our website at investor-relations.calix.com and at the SEC’s web site at www.sec.gov .

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### THE PROXY PROCESS AND STOCKHOLDER VOTING

### QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THIS PROXY MATERIAL AND VOTING

#### Who can vote at the Annual Meeting?
Only stockholders of record at the close of business on March 11, 2025, will be entitled to vote online at the Annual Meeting. At the close of business on March 11, 2025, there were 66,648,716 shares of common