We have a Calix C7 as well as some E7-2's in a few markets for a little over a year. We only deal with GPON/AE deployments and the C7 worked to get us started but the E7 is definitely more purpose built for ethernet & fiber services. Just started several major build-outs which pushed us to re-evaluate vendors and after looking at a few other vendors we ended up going back to the Calix E7 platform. Due to price and features vs other vendors. We have three E7-20's that we're turning up. I would agree with Jeff's positives. They are starting to roll out indoor ONT's which will shave some cost off of the ONT & Battery for the CPE.
- They do only support RSTP now, not MST but in our deployment we have 2 x 10 GE LAG ports on two separate line switching cards. MST will be coming in a future release. - True IPv6 support is coming next year - Quite a few other new features coming in the next year that we're excited to see. Feel free to ping me off-list if you have any other questions. Nick Colton Director of Network Operations ALLO Communications On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Josh V. Hoppes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello NANOG, > > Due to unforeseen circumstances we need to consider alternative vendors > for our GPON system, moving away from Motorola. We wanted to throw out a > line and find out what other networks have deployed and what experiences > they have had positive or negative with them. Thanks in advance for any > replies. > > Josh Hoppes > Network Engineer > Cedar Falls Utilities > > > >
