I'm a bit unhappy with the SIAE link that I have in place. While it has been pretty solid once I got it up and running, the initial process had some issues. Then I lost a radio due to a power surge (which I didn't think should have caused a failure - nothing else on the tower died) and the replacement radio is throwing out errors that point to a failure at some point in the future, which they won't troubleshoot with me unless I pay for additional support. That, coupled with the fact that the radios now cost not quite double what I originally paid, has me looking elsewhere.
The single radio sparing on the Navigator is huge for me as well. I guess I need to hear some reviews from people who have Navigators in the wild. -Jason On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 9:06 AM Seth Mattinen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/8/19 12:51 AM, Jason McKemie wrote: > > This is a bit unsettling. I'm looking some Navigator links. The > > price/performance seems pretty good IMO, and the single radio sparing is > > a big plus. I remember Nathan from Wisper swearing off Bridgewave > > because of some random issues with links as well. > > > > > Yeah I really don't know what to think. I have microwave gear from SAF, > Exalt, and Cambium/Ceragon and those have all been rock solid in all > kinds of places. I thought these would be in the same category but it's > been nothing but problems. The 10+ minute reboot times are beyond > frustrating too. > > One thing that struck me as odd was that when I did back to back testing > on the bench with waveguide that even in what I felt should be perfect > RF conditions they wouldn't reach full modulation. Support said that was > to be expected because of the attenuators being used and since these > were new and I was new to Bridgewave I went ahead and deployed them. > > Down for 2 hours, so many reboots later, and it finally came up again. > Why? Nobody knows. But now it won't modulate above QAM on one side. > These Bridgewaves weren't cheap and even if I'm able to get to the > bottom of why they are being crap I don't think I'll ever be able to > trust them without a parallel link from another vendor. > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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