Carl will probably have a few questions. Carl? ;-)
Ya can roll your own for free like many folks do, or can pay plenty of vendors five figures for that soft, warm, fuzzy kinda feeling that'll integrate with your back office operation and give the gal at the front desk access to everything except your CMTS -- until she has questions. Then you call the vendor to get it all straightened out according to your support contract -- and presumably after your comprehensive and expensive training expertise has failed to resolve the issue.
Third party provisioning is an alternative, but if you're relying on that for your operation, you need to get educated real fast on how easy it is to do with
a Linux box and freely available open source software before ya start payin' a few bux a month per sub for someone else ta do it for ya. Again, it all depends....
Best bang for your buck in pure provisioning without a bunch of bells and whistles that still provides a GUI and relatively rich API and support for the gal at the desk is BroadbandProvisioner from Sweden. DOCSIS 3.0 and IPV6 ready to go at a very reasonable price. They have a link here as do the others. Check em all out, do the homework required for your particular situation and make an educated decision. Most folks here know about what they have and aren't worldly experienced in all of the wonderful and mega-expensive flavors of commercial provisioning products out there on the market. The docsis-server project is by far the prevailing platform of the open source crowd, but is entirely CLI-based unless one develops their own GUI front end. Not much development or sharing of those resources here, but there is some if you're Linux inclined to the degree of playing with such offerings.
I'm going with BroadbandProvisioner for my network after getting more tech support for their demo than I got sales hassled from a few of the other popular 5 figure vendors. I'm not so Linux inclined that I was able to pull off all the requirements of getting docsis-server up and running on any sort of
production level, so ejected from that whole experiment. Next was to simply set up an ISC DHCPD provisioning box and go from there, which I did with
success, but with limitations on a variety of levels -- not the least of which was multi-level user access for different functionality by different users of the system. So I went exploring all the commercial alternatives. Settled on BroadbandProvisioner for my market size, particular needs and budget.
And I like the folks, there. Something to be said for that these days.
Clear as mud? But hey, I *could* be as vague as your question if that'd be more helpful! ;-)
Carl will probably have a few questions. Carl? ;-)
Ya can roll your own for free like many folks do, or can pay plenty of vendors five figures for that soft, warm, fuzzy kinda feeling that'll integrate with your back office operation and give the gal at the front desk access to everything except your CMTS -- until she has questions. Then you call the vendor to get it all straightened out according to your support contract -- and presumably after your comprehensive and expensive training expertise has failed to resolve the issue.
Third party provisioning is an alternative, but if you're relying on that for your operation, you need to get educated real fast on how easy it is to do with
a Linux box and freely available open source software before ya start payin' a few bux a month per sub for someone else ta do it for ya. Again, it all depends....
Best bang for your buck in pure provisioning without a bunch of bells and whistles that still provides a GUI and relatively rich API and support for the gal at the desk is BroadbandProvisioner from Sweden. DOCSIS 3.0 and IPV6 ready to go at a very reasonable price. They have a link here as do the others. Check em all out, do the homework required for your particular situation and make an educated decision. Most folks here know about what they have and aren't worldly experienced in all of the wonderful and mega-expensive flavors of commercial provisioning products out there on the market. The docsis-server project is by far the prevailing platform of the open source crowd, but is entirely CLI-based unless one develops their own GUI front end. Not much development or sharing of those resources here, but there is some if you're Linux inclined to the degree of playing with such offerings.
I'm going with BroadbandProvisioner for my network after getting more tech support for their demo than I got sales hassled from a few of the other popular 5 figure vendors. I'm not so Linux inclined that I was able to pull off all the requirements of getting docsis-server up and running on any sort of
production level, so ejected from that whole experiment. Next was to simply set up an ISC DHCPD provisioning box and go from there, which I did with
success, but with limitations on a variety of levels -- not the least of which was multi-level user access for different functionality by different users of the system. So I went exploring all the commercial alternatives. Settled on BroadbandProvisioner for my market size, particular needs and budget.
And I like the folks, there. Something to be said for that these days.
Clear as mud? But hey, I *could* be as vague as your question if that'd be more helpful! ;-)
Poge