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. > > > > > * Rya**n H**ill * > Operations Manager > *Amplex I**nternet* > (419)837-5015 Ext 1047 > www.amplex.net > > > > > > > On Jun 7, 2019, at 4:41 PM, Ryan Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 1:38 PM Darin Steffl <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> No great system works for free. >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> On Fri, Jun 7, 2019, 5:30 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm curious what people are doing for home WiFi. >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> 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? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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