Calix E7's are pretty rock solid, super expensive. Their home routers are "ok" also super expensive. You need to beat their sales staff off with a stick trying to sell you everything you don't need. Support is hit and miss but has been much better lately. I find it really hard to justify the costs for their customer cloud. In fact our whole team does since there are other products out there that do it for a fraction of the cost. But it is enterprise grade and generally pretty robust.
On Sat, Dec 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > I assume some of the folks on this list who are doing fiber use Calix ONTs > and routers? > > > > If I go to the Calix website, maybe as a provider thinking of using them > as a vendor, I am totally confused. It is not clear what products they > sell or how I would use them. It all seems to be glossy marketing stuff > about their agentic AI cloud and market insights. I don’t see a single > picture of a piece of hardware. > > > > Is this how a lot of ISPs are making money despite charging low prices? > Do they have an “agentic workforce” monitoring how their customers use the > Internet, cross referencing it to demographics, and mining that data for > ads, upselling, etc.? It seems they have special cloud features for MDU > managers as well. > > > > It seems a lot of cable companies use Amazon’s eero, I wonder if service > provider eero is like Calix, or if it’s just the retail eero with a few > remote management features added. > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY This communication, including any attachments, is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) to this email and is confidential. If you are not an intended recipient or acting on behalf of an intended recipient, any review, disclosure, conversion to hard copy, dissemination, reproduction or other use of any part of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you receive this communication in error or without authorization, please notify the originator immediately and remove it from your system.
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