The DT (xpic) is just over $10K for a full link with 2' antennas. The
sparing is where you save the most though.

On Tuesday, February 19, 2019, Josh Baird <[email protected]> wrote:

> So - realistically, approximately how much is a complete link?
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 10:08 AM Jason McKemie <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Interested to hear how it goes.
>>
>> On Tuesday, February 19, 2019, Rory Conaway <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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]> 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 <j.mckemie@veloxinetbroadband.
>>> com> 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.
>>>
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