I’d say it’s still maturing … for example, MGCP support was badly broken for a while and their management platform overwrites any changes you make in CLI directly but for some features you had to do it in the CLI for it to work. Quite a bit of this is fixed.
Adtran’s TA boxes are rock solid in my experience … their routers/switches (Netvanta) not so much … Calix is pretty solid out of the gates, especially their E7 stuff. Of course, you will get a lot of opinions on this topic… Zhone is another that will have wide variety of comments made about it From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tushar Patel Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 3:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Phone System 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] <mailto:[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 <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 11:04 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Phone System Just wish their products were as good as Calex et al. From: Lewis Bergman <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 10:35 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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
