I should add that I talked to Mike Carpinelli at WISPAmerica in March 2016 and he has been returning my emails and had actually set up a time for a conference. But as I plowed through all the documentation on the Calix site, I couldn’t find any of the basic information most vendors give you, basically a getting started guide. What are you going to need, a step-by-step guide to hooking it all up, and screenshots of the GUI that your people will see, and that your customers will see.
Furthermore, from the discussion here, it seems even WISPs that are using Calix products aren’t clear on Calix Cloud vs Consumer Connect, are they the same thing, are they different. It seems like one is too expensive, and the other has the secret sauce and without it you’re missing half the features. Or maybe they are different names for the same thing. Very confusing. Originally I thought I just needed to order a handful of devices for lab and beta testing, and that we’d learn through the hands-on experience. But I backed off when I found the documentation wasn’t telling me any of the things I needed to know. Clearly just getting some devices in my hands wasn’t going to resolve the knowledge gap, if I was finding the documentation totally unhelpful. From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 7:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Calix Gigacenters - how difficult to implement? Cory is about as official as it gets. From: Adam Moffett Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 4:28 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Calix Gigacenters - how difficult to implement? I would love to see "official" answers. I'm looking at routers and managed WiFi for an FTTH build passing around 10,000 households. I haven't made any commitments yet, so I'd be willing to talk about Calix. On 11/19/2018 6:13 PM, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: Actually this is the beginning. From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Friday, November 16, 2018 8:50 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: [AFMUG] Calix Gigacenters - how difficult to implement? 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. _____ -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com _____ -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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