About Deployment Cloud

As part of the Calix Cloud Foundation, Deployment Cloud facilitates fast and easy deployment and basic management of Calix EXOS EDGE systems, including:

Onboarding workflows
Value-added SmartLife Managed Services
Subscriber services provisioning
Basic lifecyle management
Basic reporting of the installed base for both systems and Managed Services

With an efficient onboarding workflow to streamline new turn-ups, Deployment Cloud supports a plug-n-play subscriber experience.

What's New in this Release

New features or enhancements introduced in release 23.2:

Feature Category	New Feature/Enhancement	Descriptions/Benefits
Network and Services Automation Workflow	Workflow enhancements	Support for end-to-end data, voice, and video service provisioning for GigaSpire systems, simplifying provisioning across the network. Support for an on boot workflow triggered when the CPE is powered on by the user, pushing upgrades and service provisioning on boot to eliminate additional maintenance windows. Support for access control list RG profiles to block unsolicited Internet traffic to remote management and VoIP stacks. Improved management of software images, including identification of supported Calix ONU images and a sortable image table.

Feature Category

New Feature/Enhancement

Descriptions/Benefits

Network and Services Automation Workflow

Workflow enhancements

Support for end-to-end data, voice, and video service provisioning for GigaSpire systems, simplifying provisioning across the network.

Support for an on boot workflow triggered when the CPE is powered on by the user, pushing upgrades and service provisioning on boot to eliminate additional maintenance windows.

Support for access control list RG profiles to block unsolicited Internet traffic to remote management and VoIP stacks.

Improved management of software images, including identification of supported Calix ONU images and a sortable image table.

For a summary of additional Calix Cloud enhancements in this release not specific to this application, refer to the Release Notes for the Calix Cloud Platform.

Systems Support

Deployment Cloud supports the following EXOS Edge systems from Calix.


Model	Type	Min. Firmware
u10xe (GS4237)	ONT¹ + RG	R23.2.0
u4hm (GM1028H)	Outdoor mesh satellite	R23.2.0
u4xg (GS2128XG)	ONT + RG²	R23.1.0
u4g (GS2128G)	ONT + RG	R22.4.0
p6he (GPR2032H)	Outdoor RG or Mesh satellite
GPR8802x	ONT + PoE switch
u6e (GS2037E)	RG
u6me (GM2037)	Mesh satellite
u6x (GS4227)^{3, 4} u6xw (GS4227W)³	ONT¹ + RG
u6.1 (GS4220E) u6.2 (GS4227E) u4 (GS2028E)	RG
u4m (GM1028)	Mesh satellite
¹ everyPON or AE ONT (SFP+ ONT module in WAN port) ² XGS-PON ONT ³ Supports PON ONTs using Native mode only ⁴ Does not support untagged WAN configurations if WAN_TYPE is GPON or XGSPON

General Notes

Deployment Cloud does not support 3rd party subscriber devices.
IP2Location™ provides the geo-mapping service for the Deployment Cloud Geographic View.
When the subscriber's name contains no space in the UI, the name is treated as "Last Name" in the associated Arlo account. (CCL-57282)

Web Browser Requirements

Using Calix Cloud requires the following minimum web browser versions:

Chrome 100.0.4896.88 or above
Firefox 96.0 or above

Technical Support

Create and manage technical support cases online. Log in to My Calix, click the Calix Community tile, and then click Calix Service Station.