What kind of initial investment did you see? Any kind of features you're
not getting from the Friendly Tech ACS vs Calix Cloud?


On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 1:45 PM Ryan Hill <[email protected]> wrote:

> I’d highly suggest looking an investing in your own Friendly Tech ACS.  Up
> front cost is certainly an investment, but its yours.  We are well over
> 2000 devices with a mix of cnPilot , ReadyNet, Calix, Adtran devices.
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> On Jun 7, 2019, at 4:41 PM, Ryan Ray <[email protected]> wrote:
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> We're also making the decision to go with Calix after deploying hundreds
> of cnpilot. The hardware quality with cnpilot is just not there. Agreed
> that for .54 cents per sub just charge a managed router charge. We're
> expecting much better performance out of the calix.
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> On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 1:38 PM Darin Steffl <[email protected]>
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>> No great system works for free.
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>> Calix is still the best option out there feature and performance wise.
>> Price isn't bad once you consider how easy it is, can free up labor for
>> money making things like sales, and reduces churn. I'm going to continue
>> saying that the Calix cloud pays for itself over and over again.
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>> We pay for management of 1000 routers like $6500 a year for cloud which
>> comes out to something like 54 cents per month per sub. Sell your customers
>> managed router service if you're worried. We include it at zero cost now
>> because it's better they have a good wifi experience than a shitty one and
>> then cancel service.
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>> On Fri, Jun 7, 2019, 5:30 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> I'm curious what people are doing for home WiFi.
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>>> I've looked at Calix, Plume, and other big name systems.  They're all
>>> pretty awesome, but the recurring cost is a little tough to swallow.
>>>
>>> I don't like Mikrotik for this purpose because A) no central management
>>> unless you write your own and B) it's daunting for new techs to learn
>>> some basic things like port forwarding or switching to bridge mode.   I
>>> mean it's nice that the Mikrotik can do everything, but a port
>>> forwarding rule doesn't need to be that hard.
>>>
>>> With Ubiquiti they have a bunch of different products with diverging
>>> target markets.  Hard to get a handle on what I would want.  I do like
>>> that UNMS is available for free.  I don't like that AmpliFi isn't
>>> supported in UNMS, and honestly the pricetag on the Mesh nodes is a bit
>>> high ($100+). The AirCube models seem about right, but I wish it had a
>>> couple of features from AmpliFi.  UniFi is a nice system and AFAIK the
>>> only UBNT thing with zero touch provisioning, but it's not convenient
>>> for many individual networks on the controller.  I guess I feel like
>>> they have 3 different product lines that are each almost right, but they
>>> couldn't quite bring it all together.
>>>
>>> Cambium CnPilot with CnMaestro ticks most of my check boxes, but
>>> (correct me if I'm wrong) I don't think they make a mesh/repeater type
>>> of unit.
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>>> I guess I could look at ReadyNet again.  I can't remember why I didn't
>>> run with them earlier.
>>>
>>> What is the Borg using for home WiFi to sell as a service?
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