How much is a rackmount CMM4 these days? Do you have to provide both 24V and 48V if you want to power each, or does it have internal DC-DC converters?
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Eric Muehleisen <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 for Adam and David. We have a blend of CMM4 and CTM2's. My plant techs > love the CTM2's because of their simplicity and design. However, our CMM4's > just work. Never have blown ports. CTM2's are prone to port failure and > have management issues. > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 9:43 AM, David <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I only moved from CTM2 to CMM4 rackmount stuff only because of price. >> CTM2 does have all the good stuff a cmm4 only wishes it had but as far >> as protection both are equal. I have both in the field and have steadily >> replaced most if not all CTM1's with CMM4 due to CRC and some port failures >> after storms. >> I want my CMM(5) or the NEW CMM from cambium with magic sauce to use >> with GIGE .. oh yeah must be Rackmount and have some cool new features for >> monitoring.. just sayin. >> >> >> >> >> >> On 10/20/2015 08:53 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: >> >> When I lived in Canopy land, I liked the Sync Injectors for the small >> form factor and low power. Great for little bitty installs. >> >> We never lost a port on a CMM4, ever. We did blow up a few sync >> injectors during thunderstorms. So if you don't want to worry about it, >> get the CMM4.....maybe your vendor will put the popcorn inside for you. >> >> >> On 10/20/2015 2:26 AM, That One Guy /sarcasm wrote: >> >> We have been deploying the packetflux stuff as primary sync solution. >> Other than the little bugginess with it, I'm very satisfied. >> >> We have a CTM that I think we paid 1700 bucks for, the night we deployed >> it, we took a lightning strike and lost a port, so we have an AP >> independently powered and synced from a parasitic. To clean it up, we have >> to buy a whole new CTM, whereas with packetflux we would probably have only >> needed to buy a syncinjector. >> >> We have a couple CMM Micros that have been tooling along for years >> without issues, but I think we originally paid like 2 grand for those too. >> >> We have one deployed CMM4 and one on the shelf, handy because theyre >> outdoor and have the switch built in, but that massive power supply makes >> me want to take a dump on my cat, and I think their pricetag at the time >> was like 2400 bucks, same issue with CTM, lose a port replace the whole >> thing. Want to move up to a gigabit radio, buy a whole new unit. >> >> Little things like losing the module order, weird ways of firmware >> upgrades and 10mb management, and no good way to monitor certain things in >> Powercode don't really justify the cost of the other two solutions. The >> popcorn is a selling point to, cambium doesn't give you shit. The >> outstanding responsiveness to support requests and openness of the >> manufacturer with packetflux is a selling point for me too. >> >> Am I missing anything that should be coming into the decision making >> process here? The boss would be willing to shell out the cash for the >> CTM/CMMs but that eats a boatload of budget. And it does require a certain >> attention to detail to manage the packetflux gear, so if I were to exit, >> would it be as simple as a fully managed solution for my replacement. >> >> Anybody here turn away from the packetflux solution for either of the >> other two? >> >> >> -- >> If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team >> as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. >> >> >> >> >
