For what it's worth, we've had two Bridgewave FL4G-LITE 80ghz links running for about a year with no issues.
On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 3:36 PM Josh Baird <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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