Is TA5000 lacking so much?

Is calix that much better?

Can somebody tell us what features Adran is lacking?  

We are going to decide soon on the FTTH vendor.

Tushar


> On Nov 26, 2015, at 12:59 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Adtran channel banks are just fine.  But their FTTH stuff leaves plenty to be 
> desired.  TA5000 is  an E7 wanna be. 
>  
> From: Paul Stewart
> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 11:04 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Phone System
>  
> Exactly …. Adtran’s marketing on some of their products and what their “real 
> world experience” is doesn’t like up.  Having said that, the TA5000 system 
> has promise and I’ve seen a number of ILEC’s deploying it (and CLEC’s).   
> Calix’s big issue is they have their head up their $$s on a lot of stuff – 
> once you waive 6 figures in front of them they seem to wake up …. Adtran on 
> the other hand will spend as much time as needed even over a $1k deal
>  
> From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown
> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 12:40 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Phone System
>  
> Just wish their products were as good as Calex et al.  
>  
> From: Lewis Bergman
> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 10:35 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Phone System
>  
> I think Adtran is likely the best company in tech when comparing product and 
> support. I wish I could claim I had as good a support team as they have. 
> Amazing.
> 
>  
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015, 11:22 AM Seth Mattinen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/25/15 7:27 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
> > I assume if they are using IP in the backbone, they aren’t doing it the
> > same way we do VoIP on the last mile, which is very inefficient, and
> > introduces a lot of latency.
> 
> 
> I supervised a CLEC delivery of SIP trunks yesterday - over a T1 (as
> EFM) using an Adtran 814.
> 
> ~Seth

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