I'm kind of interested in what other people do for the BNG side of things. Does everyone run PPPoE? Does Powercode have hardware to terminate IPoE? Auth and CRM are the easier parts to find, but BNG/BRAS, at least for IPoE seems to be relegated to big players.
If I were starting a FISP from scratch, I think I would look closely at Calix AXOS subscriber management and a similar setup with CORD. On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:16 PM Cameron Crum <cc...@murcevilo.com> wrote: > David, > > I'm curious what you can't do with the v1 API. I have yet to find > something I haven't been able to help people with in custom integrations > with Sonar's API. Obviously, things will change with v2, but I'd be curious > to know what you are needing. > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 7:19 AM David Coudron < > david.coud...@advantenon.com> wrote: > >> We see the same thing as Mike is referring to. We would really like to >> get to v2.0. There has been quite a bit of discussion about it and >> webinars saying it is ready and so on, but when you really press on the >> topic, you find out many of the necessary features aren’t ready and you >> can’t migrate. We have been in this state for months, and it doesn’t seem >> like anything will change anytime soon. Our recommendation is, make >> absolutely sure the current feature set works for you, do not assume you >> will be using v2.0 because that timeline isn’t set. >> >> >> >> We want to move to v2.0 to take advantage of the new API stuff, as we’d >> like to do some simple integration that doesn’t work with the v1.x API. >> We are also hoping we will see improvement in the stability of the >> monitoring in v2.0. We have found that the monitoring in the current >> version isn’t nearly as reliable as Powercode and we have had to supplement >> it with another tool. >> >> >> >> That being said, we can’t say enough about the integration with Preseem, >> as Preseem has been an indispensable addition to our toolset. I imagine >> you could use Preseem pretty successfully without Powercode or Sonar, but >> the Sonar to Preseem integration makes it so easy to put Preseem in, and >> Preseem has a lot of value. It is our most used monitoring and >> troubleshooting tool. >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> David Coudron >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of * Mike Hammett >> *Sent:* Thursday, April 23, 2020 7:06 AM >> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] billing >> >> >> >> No one I know is running 2.0 because it isn't finished and doesn't seem >> likely to be finished by fall. >> >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> >> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> >> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> >> Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> >> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> >> >> >> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> >> ------------------------------ >> >> *From: *"Sterling Jacobson" <sterl...@avative.net> >> *To: *"AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> >> *Sent: *Wednesday, April 22, 2020 11:42:13 PM >> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] billing >> >> Text to customer isn’t a feature yet. >> >> >> >> Are you running v2.0 Sonar already? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Sean Heskett >> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 22, 2020 7:04 PM >> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] billing >> >> >> >> if you only want to do billing Platypus is still around and is relatively >> cheap, but it is literally a billing platform only. >> >> >> >> Sonar is a total CRM as well as business management platform...the whole >> enchilada. >> >> >> >> -sean >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 6:58 PM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: >> >> I used Plat years ago and was happy with it. >> >> So glad to hear you are happy with Sonar. >> >> Simon is a standup guy. >> >> >> >> *From:* Sean Heskett >> >> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 22, 2020 6:55 PM >> >> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group >> >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] billing >> >> >> >> Sonar is awesome, you won't be disappointed. >> >> >> >> we started with platypus, moved to powercode, it was an upgrade from plat >> but was way too clunky and at the time powercode couldn't do RADIUS so, >> after 18 months of trying to make our business model fit to the powercode >> way we moved to Sonar and haven't looked back. >> >> >> >> Sonar is very forward thinking with their service and they have just >> about every integration under the sun you could think of (text to customer, >> fleet tracking, preseem QoS, snail mail marketing etc.) >> >> >> >> -Sean >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 5:59 PM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: >> >> I will probably be launching a new network this calendar year. So at >> some point I will once again have to try to choose the best billing >> platform. >> >> >> >> Leaking toward Sonar. Have used Plat in the past. Is Powercode still >> alive? >> >> Opinions? >> >> -- >> 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 >> >> -- >> 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 >> >> >> -- >> 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 > -- Carl Peterson *PORT NETWORKS* 401 E Pratt St, Ste 2553 Baltimore, MD 21202 (410) 637-3707
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