Webinars are good. I can hold off with my questions if there’s a webinar in the works.
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Cory Polman Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 10:38 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Calix Gigacenters - how difficult to implement? Sure we can run through it all. I’ll get it pulled together….I’ll shot for the first week of Dec. That will give me a sec to get everything lined up. I’ll send an invite out to this group and you can register. Hang Tight… Cory Polman-----Calix 612-360-1426-Cell <mailto:cory.pol...@calix.com> cory.pol...@calix.com From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> > On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 10:31 AM To: af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Calix Gigacenters - how difficult to implement? ...and maybe 844GE? ...and I for one might want to hear about the WiFi and Smart Home stuff. On 11/20/2018 10:58 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: 844E and the ancillary programs that support its use. From: Cory Polman Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 8:54 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Calix Gigacenters - how difficult to implement? We could do that…on support cloud correct? Cory Polman-----Calix 612-360-1426-Cell cory.pol...@calix.com <mailto:cory.pol...@calix.com> From: AF <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 9:49 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Calix Gigacenters - how difficult to implement? Do a webinar for us. From: Cory Polman Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 8:04 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Calix Gigacenters - how difficult to implement? Morning Ken & All! I’m trying to follow all the questions…so I’ll do my best. Let me know where I can help and we’ll see what we can do to help plug the holes. Sometimes there is a lot of info on the Calix site and it can be hard to locate too…make sure you have a log in to get to the engineering documentation. So on the Cloud/CC+ side. Think of Support Cloud as our next Gen product set. So it replaces CC+. However, there are two flavors of Support cloud – EME (Experience Management Addition) and DME (Device Management). So DME is = CC+ with some new features and functionality. If I recall the pricing is in line with CC+. EME is the upgraded version, with Smart Check/flow per sub/tie into the billing system…. Call avoidance reports…etc. Anyway, we can give you a demo of both so you can compare and see. EME has some really great features especially if you have nontechnical folks/of after hour call support desk taking calls. Both the cloud tools support TR 69, some TR 181/TR 98 as well based upon what device your using for a GTWY/Router….with the 804/844E/G/GE we can get some really great analytics, but other devices we can pull some of that info from as well. As far as set up…its very straight forward on both the 844E and 804/Cloud items. We’ll help walk you through and get things going. If you want some help on the marketing materials for managed wifi we have been helping folks with Marketing Consultations as well. Below is a link with some videos/info from folks on here as well. Lastly – Let me know how I can help/where you are at and I’ll be sure to get a call set up. I’d be happy to help heard our folks if they are not getting back to you. Just let me know. My contact info is below…Cory https://www.calix.com/solutions/service-providers/wisps.html https://www.calix.com/platforms/calix_cloud.html Cory Polman-----Calix 612-360-1426-Cell cory.pol...@calix.com <mailto:cory.pol...@calix.com> From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> > On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 8:25 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Calix Gigacenters - how difficult to implement? I should add that I talked to Mike Carpinelli at WISPAmerica in March 2016 and he has been returning my emails and had actually set up a time for a conference. But as I plowed through all the documentation on the Calix site, I couldn’t find any of the basic information most vendors give you, basically a getting started guide. What are you going to need, a step-by-step guide to hooking it all up, and screenshots of the GUI that your people will see, and that your customers will see. Furthermore, from the discussion here, it seems even WISPs that are using Calix products aren’t clear on Calix Cloud vs Consumer Connect, are they the same thing, are they different. It seems like one is too expensive, and the other has the secret sauce and without it you’re missing half the features. Or maybe they are different names for the same thing. Very confusing. Originally I thought I just needed to order a handful of devices for lab and beta testing, and that we’d learn through the hands-on experience. But I backed off when I found the documentation wasn’t telling me any of the things I needed to know. Clearly just getting some devices in my hands wasn’t going to resolve the knowledge gap, if I was finding the documentation totally unhelpful. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> > On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 7:00 PM To: af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Calix Gigacenters - how difficult to implement? Cory is about as official as it gets. From: Adam Moffett Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 4:28 PM To: af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Calix Gigacenters - how difficult to implement? I would love to see "official" answers. I'm looking at routers and managed WiFi for an FTTH build passing around 10,000 households. I haven't made any commitments yet, so I'd be willing to talk about Calix. On 11/19/2018 6:13 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: Actually this is the beginning. From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Friday, November 16, 2018 8:50 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: [AFMUG] Calix Gigacenters - how difficult to implement? For those of you who’ve successfully deployed Calix: I’ve been wanting to do something with the 844E and 804 since WISPAmerica 2.5 years ago, but I feel like I’m at the starting line of a marathon with my feet stuck in buckets full of concrete. Calix has tons of documentation, and after reading it, I feel about 1% smarter. I don’t know what the end user or a tech sees as an interface for analytics and troubleshooting and tweaking settings. I don’t know if you can do a standalone implementation with just the Calix Cloud and some Gigacenters and Mesh units, I get the impression you need to mess with APIs and tie into all sorts of operations systems that we don’t have. I’m not even clear on whether we need to set up some kind of on-network TR-069 server, or if that’s all a cloud service hosted by Calix. Is the Calix stuff relatively straightforward to use, on a par with Cambium cnPilot and cnMaestro Cloud? And maybe Calix documentation is just very confusing or I’m being stupid? Or are these things pretty complicated to incorporate into a WISP network and get all the advantages of the devices and cloud management? I’m trying to decide whether to keep struggling and get more help from Calix, or give up. _____ -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com _____ -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com _____ -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com _____ -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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