Calix doesn't really fit our business model. We
have them through acquisitions only and phase them out where possible.
Friendly's cost has many different components. We
are under NDA but a one-time cost, including
professional services and set up licensed for 40k
devices was about what others charge per device per month, or a cup of coffee.
Server is nothing special.
Processor: 8 Cores
Memory: 64 GB RAM minimum
Storage: Local 1000 GB or more in RAID1 SSD Drives with latency < 1ms
Network: Interface Gigabit Ethernet NICs
Operating: System Windows Server 2016 (64-bit) or higher
Yes, unfortunately the portal component is still
Windows for now but you can separate out the
other functions (database and engine) onto
Linux. We decided to keep in all on one platform for now.
Add in yearly maintenance and it's still
significantly more cost effective than all others
we evaluated, or every vendors' own proprietary solution.
Another alternative is to roll your
own. GenieACS is what I originally used, and
still do for a small deployment (change default
passwords and set the SSID/passphrase for a small
standalone managed WiFi service on ~20
ONTs). The person that wrote it is/was for hire
as well. For simple provisioning, it's probably all you would ever need.
Oh, I forgot to mention TR-069 is a pig (can be
lots of traffic/packets if you use the entire
paramter tree and at frequent intervals) but
TR-369 is gaining momentum. Friendly supports it
(I belive GenieACS does as well) but CPE vendors need to get on the ball.
Hope that helps.
At 09:41 AM 9/12/2022, Steven Kenney wrote:
Calix cloud actually auto-manages wifi freqs and
such. Did you ever try that? Reason is that
they are not supporting some of our combo
gateways so if they don't, as well as not
supporting Mikrotik either it may be time to
jump ship and find something more affordable and
with the ability to handle a wider variety of
products. Their cloud does work pretty good
though, but no on PREM. I like you prefer all
things to be on prem. Any estimate on what you
paid for the server? You can hit me off
list. Just curious to see how much per 1k customers etc.Â
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 9:38 AM D. Bernardi
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
Pricing was pretty flexible. I think cloud is
recurring per device and on-prem is one-time
(based on a block of devices) and then a yearly
maintenance fee. Far less than other products.
They also have some additional modules, like QoE
that we are looking at to keep WiFi statistics
over time. We also haven't started using WiFi
optimization yet but the goal is to scan in home
WiFi networks and make adjustments, similar to
Plume. The other thing we expect to start using
is automating the required FCC speedtests.
At 09:20 AM 9/12/2022, Steven Kenney wrote:
>Also thanks, that is one service I hadn't seen
>yet.ÃÂ Ã Are they price per sub or yearly etc?
>
>On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 9:09 AM D. Bernardi
><<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
>
>DOCSIS cable modems cannot be managed with TR-069
>per the Cable Labs specifications.ÃÂ However
>embedded router (e-router) can as well as e-MTA.
>
>I'm using Friendly Technologies (on-premise, not
>cloud) but mainly for collecting WiFi statistics
>and troubleshooting (including Calix ONTs), not
>provisioning.ÃÂ They have a cloud-based demo
>platform that you can point your device to for testing.
>
>
>
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> >Anyone use it?ÃÃÂ We used it for our fiberr
> >deployment but most of it is already
> >managed.ÃÃÂ But we will be adding a new liine of
> >Docsys gateways out there we want to control and
> >will not integrate with Calix's servers.ÃÃÂ They
> >won't support them either as it is only in their
> >best interests to support their own
> >devices..ÃÃÂ There are a couple open sourcced ACS
> >servers out there but nothing that seems user
> >friendly enough for our staff to use.Ã
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> >Anyone recommend any software, that is
> >reasonable and easy to use? Online services etc?
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