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.
>>>
>>>
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