Doesn't hurt to give the newer stuff a shot and possibly save some CAPEX. :)
(And the newer ZTE VDSL2 products are deployed and/or in trials along with the
G.fast products with operators throughout the US.)
The DTMF tones are simply a matter of getting the software updated if the
product's going to be sold in the US. ZTE's deployed by Tier 1s in EU along
APAC, etc. -- a couple of the analyst groups rank them as the #1 HGW vendor
worldwide.
Do you remember what RG you were using? An ADSL RG? Only a handful of vendors
did triple play on those products and they all had issues for the first few
years of the technology without naming names.
An ATA was typically -- for most ADSL RGs -- a separate device where the triple
play boxes had the FXS (analog) chip integrated into the system.
Since everything on a PON system, outside of the customer LAN (Wifi/POTS/GigE),
is EMS based, the EMS is pretty much 1:1 with other systems based on feedback
since you're managing the L2/L3 network WAN traffic, the PON and the PON &
Layer 2 portion of the ONT.
From: Paul Stewart <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2017 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Calix E7-2 vs AdTran, Zhone, or?
Much prefer Adtran TA5000 stuff personally …. haven’t used ZTE for FTTH but
tested some of their other gear such as ATA combo modem (dsl) and ran into a
lot of grief with it. It “feels” super cheap and the UI had a lot to be
desired (and simply lacked needed features like North American DTMF tones etc)
Calix I liked better when it was Occam …. newer stuff though (E7) I have talked
to several folks and they like it …
On Apr 14, 2017, at 7:48 PM, PE R <[email protected]> wrote:
Or ZTE. Just came away from the NTCA show and our products compete
exceptionally well.
Options include indoor ONT w/ BBU or outdoor.
From: Chuck McCown <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Calix E7-2 vs AdTran, Zhone, or?
Like to compare with outdoor ONT with a battery backed power supply at the
home with 1 POTS line.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark - Myakka Technologies
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 2:07 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Calix E7-2 vs AdTran, Zhone, or?
Chuck,
On the OLT side it will vary depending on how many cards we put in the
cage and how many people we actually put on a port.
Best case fully populate cage with 32 users per port that will handle
1792 customers about $34 per user.
In reality, a cage with 3 slots and an average of 25 users per port for
a total of about 600 users would be about $29 per user.
This does not include a 48v power plant to run the cage. But as you
know the price per user on a port is not very much at all and slightly
varis based on density.
Hardware on the customer side for an ONT, BBU, splice case, etc. Not
including labor or drop will range from a low of about $250 to about
$450 depending on if we use an indoor verses outdoor ONT, 2 vs 4 pots,
etc.
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Friday, April 14, 2017, 3:38:54 PM, you wrote:
cwc> Just like to compare apples to apples with Calix.
cwc> -----Original Message-----
cwc> From: Mark - Myakka Technologies
cwc> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 1:19 PM
cwc> To: [email protected]
cwc> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Calix E7-2 vs AdTran, Zhone, or?
cwc> Chuck,
cwc> not personally. Those numbers are available to me. I've been so
cwc> busy lately, I haven't had time to look at them. I know the numbers
cwc> are reasonable. We are about 4 months from finishing the project we
cwc> are working on now. When that is done, I'm going to sit down and
cwc> compare estimated to actual.
