I believe RAD makes a device similar to the Accedian. There's also the Metro Nid line from Accedian, but while they do a lot, they're pretty spendy. Shawn
-----Original Message----- From: "Tim Burke" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2023 12:38am To: "Ross Tajvar" <[email protected]> Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: CPE/NID options We are using EX2300-C’s, they do the trick very well. Fanless, flexible mounting options, dual 10G feeds, and a nice price point. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 22, 2023, at 22:44, Ross Tajvar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm evaluating CPEs for one of my clients, a regional ISP. Currently, we're > terminating the customer's service (L3) on our upstream equipment and > extending it over our own fiber to the customer's premise, where it lands in > a Juniper EX2200 or EX2300. > > At a previous job, I used Accedian's ANTs on the customer prem side. I like > the ANT because it has a small footprint with only 2 ports, it's passively > cooled, it's very simple to operate, it's controlled centrally, etc. > Unfortunately, when I reached out to Accedian, they insisted that the > controller (which is required) started at $30k, which is a non-starter for us. > > I'm not aware of any other products like this. Does anyone have a > recommendation for a simple L2* device to deploy to customer premises? Not > necessarily the exact same thing, but something similarly-featured would be > ideal. > > *I'm not sure if the ANT is exactly "layer 2", but I don't know what else to > call it.
