We use Plume for stuff like this. It is a managed service they buy from us on top of the internet and the customer gets a customized APP and we have a backend NOC and cloud support much like you would get with Calix. I'd probably do it with Calix if it were 100% up to me but there are pros and cons to each.
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:43 AM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Cambium has the new 3rd party integration. We have been looking into it > and it will probably worth a poke.i can't remember what's it's called thou, > it's in the release notes > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 11:01 AM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Generally I'm against Mikrotik as a managed router, specifically because >> you can't turn anything over to the customer. Even fairly knowledgeable >> consumers won't know what to do with a Mikrotik, and they could do some >> dangerous stuff. >> >> With Cambium CnPilot (and probably most products made for this purpose) >> the customer can have a separate login with less rights and get a simple >> "Linksys" style webpage to do stuff like that. The time based rules are >> usually built in feature. I'm pretty damn sure they exist in the CnPilot, >> but I'm not in a position to check right now. >> >> When the subject said "parental controls" I thought it was going to be >> blocking porno. I'm 100% hands off on that for a lot of reasons. I >> looked into it providing it as a service, but I just don't think there >> would be enough demand to make it viable. Even if it was viable I'm not >> sure I'd want to take responsibility for it. >> >> -Adam >> >> >> >> On 1/28/2020 11:40 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: >> >> Those of you who supply managed routers (especially if you do this for >> everybody), do you set up parental controls? >> >> >> >> I had a request today from someone who wanted to turn off Internet at >> night to keep his 3 kids from using their devices. I thought this was kind >> of silly since they are 21, 23 and 24 years old. (Maybe like senators who >> have to put their devices in a cubby in the cloakroom. OK, I just thought >> that, didn’t say it out loud.) >> >> >> >> This guy has a leased Mikrotik from us, and Mikrotik does have a Kids >> control feature that could probably do this. But I don’t want to get into >> this, especially because I fear constant requests to override or tweak the >> settings. I also don’t want to give customers management control over a >> router that we are supposed to be managing. >> >> >> >> And in this case he wanted to do it across the board, but many people >> might want it set up by MAC address for each person in the family, so maybe >> the older kids would have later bedtimes and the parents wouldn’t have any >> restrictions. Or they might want the bandwidth restricted so the kids >> could do schoolwork but not stream video. >> >> >> >> What do you guys do? I’m going to guess Calix maybe has a cloud portal >> where the customer can do things like this on their own, while some >> settings are restricted to the carrier? What about other cloud managed >> routers like the Cambium stuff? >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- Carl Peterson *PORT NETWORKS* 401 E Pratt St, Ste 2553 Baltimore, MD 21202 (410) 637-3707
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