Despite the AI marketing stuff, they do make actual hardware. For most deployments you'll end up using E7-2 shelf with XGS-1601 cards and your preferred flavor of optics. They are fairly heavy on recurring cost for support and cloud services if you deploy their Gigaspire routers which you will want to. It's a solid product and we'll supported but I don't think I would have bought into it without having grant funds to cover a portion of it.
On Sat, Dec 13, 2025, 1:53 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > I assume some of the folks on this list who are doing fiber use Calix ONTs > and routers? > > > > If I go to the Calix website, maybe as a provider thinking of using them > as a vendor, I am totally confused. It is not clear what products they > sell or how I would use them. It all seems to be glossy marketing stuff > about their agentic AI cloud and market insights. I don’t see a single > picture of a piece of hardware. > > > > Is this how a lot of ISPs are making money despite charging low prices? > Do they have an “agentic workforce” monitoring how their customers use the > Internet, cross referencing it to demographics, and mining that data for > ads, upselling, etc.? It seems they have special cloud features for MDU > managers as well. > > > > It seems a lot of cable companies use Amazon’s eero, I wonder if service > provider eero is like Calix, or if it’s just the retail eero with a few > remote management features added. > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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