Hi All,
I'd say the big difference in our experience (We went with
Friendly-Tech's ACS after evaluating a few companies) is going to be how
fully fleshed out device support and GUI is. If your only concern is
simply downloading the tree and setting variables manually any ACS will
do. If your looking for a fully featured, CSR friendly, portal which
manage devices and is 100% out of the box compatible with a known CPE
then you're going to be paying more both for the ACS and for the CPE the
vendor suggests.
Friendly-Tech (which we went with) had a reasonable UI already created
(unfortunately windows ASP.net based) but has taken more time and vendor
work to get devices to do some basic things like monitor wi-fi signals
and perform password changes/diagnostics.
Tim Alexander
Amplex Internet
419-837-5015 or 888-419-3635
22690 Pemberville Road
Luckey, OH 43443
supp...@amplex.net
On 5/3/2018 8:58 AM, Mike Hammett wrote:
So other than already composing the templates for their equipment, a
vendor ACS shouldn't have any advantage over a third-party ACS?
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Well, my experience so far is that different devices have different
fields available, and you have to have a different template for each
one. The open source ACS's give you no templates, so you have to know
what you're doing and create templates. In theory the manufacturer
can pre-populate their ACS with templates.
The first one I ever saw that really made life easy for you was
Readynet's cloud based ACS. I don't know if they support any devices
other than their own, but if they did I might pay them for the privilege!
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and is there any advantage to using one that comes from the vendor
vs. a third party one?
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Has anybody tripped over an ACS software package that they like?
