I saw in the news that a big DragonWave contract in India a few years ago was delayed / lost due to a glitch in the radios - did anyone hear what happened?
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 12:16 PM Eric Kuhnke <[email protected]> wrote: > Dragonwave spent a lot of money developing new products, and on marketing, > expecting that they would get a major win with one of the big 4 american > cellular carriers. Apparently that customer went elsewhere and bought a > huge amount of competitors' carrier class radios instead (NEC, Ericsson, > Nokia). > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 8:22 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dragonwave kinda killed itself with a massive expansion based on the >> expectation of the boom continuing. They should have just banked the >> cash. >> >> *From:* Colin Stanners >> *Sent:* Friday, February 8, 2019 9:18 AM >> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Bridgewave is being annoying >> >> Did Clearwire do all the damage to those companies through the massive >> ramp-up of orders and then abruptly stopping the purchasing, or is there >> something else that I'm missing? >> >> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 10:15 AM Daniel White <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> That was a very different BridgeWave though. Pre-Siklu having 80GHz >>> products. >>> >>> They were sold to REMEC which was then sold to Moseley. There is only >>> one person left there that I worked with, who is a sales guy on the East >>> Coast (Jim Norton). >>> >>> Sprint/Clearwire did a lot of damage to Bridgewave, just as they did to >>> Dragonwave. >>> >>> I don't have any opinion of them now. >>> >>> [image: Logo] <https://atheral.com/> >>> Daniel White >>> Co-Founder - Business Development & Operations >>> phone: +1 (702) 470-2770 >>> direct: +1 (702) 470-2766 >>> >>> [email protected] wrote on 2/8/19 08:32: >>> >>> I really don't know anyone that I can recall singing the praises of >>> Bridgewave except for Daniel - while he worked for them. I have had bad >>> experiences myself and I know a handful of others in a similar boat. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- From: Seth Mattinen >>> Sent: Friday, February 8, 2019 8:05 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Bridgewave is being annoying >>> >>> 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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