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