I've been wondering where to find a TR-69 ACS that isn't awful.
RNControl was at least intuitive to use. I had assumed it was only for
ReadyNet's routers, but I guess I'll have to talk to them about
"bringing our own router".
If I talk to Affinegy will I cry when I find out what it costs?
On 11/16/2018 2:11 PM, Joe Novak wrote:
+1 for Consumer connect being expensive.
There is several other TR69 complaint router management vendors, that
do have direct support for the Gigacenter. Affinegy.com is one we
looked at, RNControl(ReadyNet) has the ability to also do a 'bring
your own router' to their TR-069 platform. There is at least one more
that had a setup too, I just can't think of the name..
The thing I like about the Calix, which we had trouble with in other
platforms, is stability. The damn things just WORK. Zyxel, Readynet,
Cambium, all had weird problems where after a week or two they could
no longer be managed and required a reboot. Wifi issues. I never had
the same problems with the Calix at home or at work. I ran it for
about a month at home before we started deploying customers.
Readynet/Zyxel/Cambium had some varying degree of annoyances, if it
was either management locking up, or wifi disappearing - device
locking up for no reason? Calix is the only one that lasted a month
without crashing in some way shape or form. I don't really have the
time or want to track down vendors problems. Not to say any of the
vendors have terrible support, but there isn't enough time in the day.
We are also using Calix in our FTTH, but the whole pushing people to
use consumer connect rubbed us the wrong way too. Would rather put in
a dumb ONT and bridge it with a 844E behind it.
Joe
On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 12:55 PM Carl Peterson
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
We don't use the calix cloud (consumer connect or whatever its
called these days)
We do run CMS, but I'm not using it with our 844GEs. It thought
this was possible, but they are really pushing people to pay them
for consumer connect. We do pay for support which includes CMS
and they can be pretty arbitrary on pricing. I think they just
make it up as they go.
We run a lot of GPON on E7-2s with 844G and GE ONTs. Easy to allow
remote access from the E7-2 for management if needed. (We run
844GEs in active ethernet fiber MDUS to start, then move them over
to GPON once we get fiber to the building or get enough customers
in the building to justify an E7-2 and GPON card in the
building). In Active ethernet mode, they are kind of a PITA.
They will randomly lose their WAN VLAN settings and go back to
their smart activate config.
I have 844Es in the lab, (shout out to Calix for sending them to
me for free for my lab), and used one at home as a test router for
awhile. Big drawback of the 844E is that their cloud is expensive
and there doesn't seem to be a free/cheap on-site version like
CnMaestro. Routers do seem to work better then CnPilots. We are
still using CnPilots for our coper MDU and CSM customer. I prefer
the performance of the 844E, but their cloud is too expensive, at
least for us (other people have ball parked much better pricing
then they quote us), and there doesn't seem to be a free/cheap
on-site version like CnMaestro.
You can run them just like a regular router, except that you have
a customer side interface and a provider side interface.
You can create a golden config file and load it onto all your
routers if you have defaults you want.
They do support tr69 so you can roll them into your own management
solution later if you like but you don't have to use it.
On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 9:52 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
For those of you who’ve successfully deployed Calix:
I’ve been wanting to do something with the 844E and 804 since
WISPAmerica 2.5 years ago, but I feel like I’m at the starting
line of a marathon with my feet stuck in buckets full of concrete.
Calix has tons of documentation, and after reading it, I feel
about 1% smarter. I don’t know what the end user or a tech
sees as an interface for analytics and troubleshooting and
tweaking settings. I don’t know if you can do a standalone
implementation with just the Calix Cloud and some Gigacenters
and Mesh units, I get the impression you need to mess with
APIs and tie into all sorts of operations systems that we
don’t have. I’m not even clear on whether we need to set up
some kind of on-network TR-069 server, or if that’s all a
cloud service hosted by Calix.
Is the Calix stuff relatively straightforward to use, on a par
with Cambium cnPilot and cnMaestro Cloud? And maybe Calix
documentation is just very confusing or I’m being stupid? Or
are these things pretty complicated to incorporate into a WISP
network and get all the advantages of the devices and cloud
management?
I’m trying to decide whether to keep struggling and get more
help from Calix, or give up.
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