We have been working with the Navigator for a few months. It still had some bugs to work out in terms of locking up every few days. We just got new software a few days ago and so far, looks good. If it make it another week, I’m ordering another one.
Rory From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mathew Howard Sent: Friday, February 8, 2019 3:09 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Bridgewave is being annoying 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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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