It's NDA protected but we buy from Calix direct. This was a price we got with negotiation. I know people paying less and people paying more. It comes down to volume. We committed to purchasing 1,200 over time to get this price. Before I think we were paying $105.
On Sun, Dec 15, 2019, 1:34 PM Jason McKemie < j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com> wrote: > Where are you getting the 844e for $100? > > On Sunday, December 15, 2019, Darin Steffl <darin.ste...@mnwifi.com> > wrote: > >> The audience costs about $160 right now when you get the Calix 844e for >> much cheaper than that close to $100. Mesh is even less and it's easy >> for the customer to pair. >> >> Plus it's all managed by you in a single management system. 50 cents per >> month per router. All these other systems people are talking about are more >> expensive upfront and there's zero management of them that is easy with >> support behind it. >> >> If someone says management is expensive, I say it would take 10 years for >> the Mikrotik with zero monthly costs to breakeven. That's $60 divided by >> 50 cents = 120 months or 10 years. >> >> So Calix at $100 upfront and $0.50 monthly is way better value than any >> other managed routers. This is carrier grade gear too better than the wifi >> on any other managed router, period. 4x4 mu-mimo chipset on 5ghz with great >> range and reliability. >> >> Everything else people are posting cost more with no capability to manage >> thousands of devices. You could try your own tr-069 platform but that costs >> labor and money as well. Just pay the man (Calix) for software they already >> have polished and if you need help, their support is included in what you >> pay so they will fix it instead of you. Time is money. If you waste your >> own time doing everything for "free or cheap", you're actually costing >> yourself lots of money. >> >> You don't always need to reinvent the wheel. I have the same thoughts on >> billing systems when people say sonar, Powercode, Azotel are too expensive. >> I say they're worth every penny because instead of sinking money into my >> own system and waiting for something polished, I can just pay these guys >> for a system that already works and focus on making money by growing. By >> trying to do everything yourself, you will absolutely cost the company >> money in hopes of trying to save money. This is why we do our best not to >> host any servers. Email and file storage is Google, payroll is gusto, >> billing is Azotel on their servers, phone system is on a vps at Linode, >> quickbooks online. All of this keeps me from trying to be a server >> administrator and I can grow our revenue. >> >> Sorry to rant and go off topic but I think wisp's shouldn't always try to >> do what's cheapest or free when many of the paid solutions will help their >> business grow. Outsource anything that is not your core business so you can >> be laser focused. >> >> On Sun, Dec 15, 2019, 11:01 AM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: >> >>> I totally missed the existence of this product and apparently the US >>> version is actually shipping. >>> >>> >>> >>> Has anyone tried them out? Typical of mesh systems, it doesn’t have a >>> full complement of Ethernet ports, but 2 is better than 1 like some of the >>> mesh products out there. >>> >>> >>> >>> It’s less expensive than a 4011, but it’s pretty and has easy mesh >>> setup. A 4011 is currently my best Mikrotik family choice for whole home >>> WiFi coverage in large homes, but it’s overkill for most customers, who >>> typically don’t need anything close to 10 GigE ports, the 4011 also gets >>> pretty hot, and it’s expensive. >>> >>> >>> >>> Rarely in customer homes can we run cables to additional routers and use >>> CAPsMAN, and the Mikrotik powerline networking product has been >>> disappointing. Am I missing something about the easy mesh setup? Is this >>> something I could do with hAP ac or 4011 routers if I just learned how? >>> The “Audience” product has two 5 GHz radios and apparently uses U-NII-1 for >>> clients and the upper bands for backhaul between mesh units. >>> >>> >>> >>> I’m hoping since this runs the regular Mikrotik OS that you don’t really >>> have to use a phone and the Audience app to set it up and can just use >>> Winbox from an Ethernet port. That’s something I dislike about most >>> customer purchased mesh systems like Google/Nest or Eero, you need an app >>> on your phone and to set up a Google or Eero cloud account, so it’s not >>> really something our installers are going to want to set up for the >>> customer. >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> AF@af.afmug.com >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >> -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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