Calix lost me when I needed higher density hardware and all they ever wanted to talk about was how they were a cloud service company and look at all our shiny toys you can pay us monthly for. Yeah - what about actually hooking up customers? Oh, if you give us a two year forecast of what you want to buy we will hook you up - just don’t count on them actually having the equipment when you need it.
Mark > On Dec 13, 2025, at 7:27 PM, Mark - Myakka Technologies via AF > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ken, > > We use them. First of all their HW just works and works well. They may seem > to be expensive on the MRC, but they bring a bunch of other services to the > table. They will help with marketing, network engineering, etc. The support > is VERY responsive and the amount of data collected in the service cloud is > unbelievable. > > This is all they do, managed routers and fiber distribution. They have to be > top notch to survive. > > They fit into our business model, but each business if different. > > I would say give them a chance to give you a proposal. See what they bring > to the table. Maybe it is a fit, maybe not. > > > > -- > Best regards, > Mark mailto:[email protected] > > Myakka Communications > www.Myakka.com <https://www.myakka.com/> > > ------ > > Saturday, December 13, 2025, 1:51:56 PM, you 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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