I keep hoping someone here will drink the Bridgewave Navigator kool-aid and report back but no one has. I’m about to pull the trigger, except I can’t get Streakwave (not a usual vendor of mine but one of two companies Jim Norton at Bridgewave said are stocking distributors) to take an order. CTI is recommending SIAE but they don’t have 10 Gbps interfaces and I keep reading of disappointing experiences with their products like yours.
Dave Sent from my iPad > On Feb 8, 2019, at 2:27 PM, Jason McKemie <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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