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. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >>> >>> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >
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