Very popular for custom prem demarc equipment though. When I had a DS3 from Verizon, they put a bunch of Adtran equipment on the wall to terminate the OC3 and hand off 3 x DS3 with test jacks and battery backup. Their IADs are very popular with CLECs.
Back when I sold T1 service, their TSU line was the standard for T1 DSUs, I still have several in my pile of stuff I hate to send to the recycler. Even when I used Cisco WIC cards, I always carried an Adtran TSU for troubleshooting from the front panel and as a golden standard. When I was active in ANSI standards committees, Adtran was very active in the HDSL arena, and they have traditionally had a lot of HSDL and SHDSL products. Those rural ILECs that have SHDSL fed remote DLSAMs are likely using Adtran equipment. I am not familiar with their fiber optic products. From: ch...@wbmfg.com Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 2:23 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Phone System But in the ILEC world, Adtran has always been the ersatz carrier class vendor. Never quite up to snuff. From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 1:06 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Phone System Adtran is a long time telecom industry supplier so they are used to supporting important customers, and given their location they can literally hire rocket scientists. From: Chuck McCown Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 12:59 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Phone System Adtran channel banks are just fine. But their FTTH stuff leaves plenty to be desired. TA5000 is an E7 wanna be. From: Paul Stewart Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 11:04 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Phone System Exactly …. Adtran’s marketing on some of their products and what their “real world experience” is doesn’t like up. Having said that, the TA5000 system has promise and I’ve seen a number of ILEC’s deploying it (and CLEC’s). Calix’s big issue is they have their head up their $$s on a lot of stuff – once you waive 6 figures in front of them they seem to wake up …. Adtran on the other hand will spend as much time as needed even over a $1k deal From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 12:40 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Phone System Just wish their products were as good as Calex et al. From: Lewis Bergman Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 10:35 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Phone System I think Adtran is likely the best company in tech when comparing product and support. I wish I could claim I had as good a support team as they have. Amazing. On Thu, Nov 26, 2015, 11:22 AM Seth Mattinen <se...@rollernet.us> wrote: On 11/25/15 7:27 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > I assume if they are using IP in the backbone, they aren’t doing it the > same way we do VoIP on the last mile, which is very inefficient, and > introduces a lot of latency. I supervised a CLEC delivery of SIP trunks yesterday - over a T1 (as EFM) using an Adtran 814. ~Seth
