There are people here who have the units deployed. I believe Rory has a link.
Josh On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 2:35 PM David Sovereen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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