[147295] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GPON Vendors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Colton)
Tue Dec 6 17:31:38 2011
In-Reply-To: <A5731D651F134C44BE4B7C54E9C49071A3BA87@cfu-exc-02.cfu.local>
From: Nick Colton <ncolton@allophone.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 15:30:03 -0700
To: "Josh V. Hoppes" <jhoppes@cfunet.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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 <jhoppes@cfunet.net> 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
>
>
>
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