I guess the latest version of Dragonwave was reasonably priced. Maybe their bean counters told them to move more units, but no one believed them.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Skorup" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2017 1:09:03 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] DW shutsdown The Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent thing hurt them the most. We were looking to do our first licensed path years ago and considered DW, but we bought more radio at 1/2 the price with Trango. On 8/3/2017 12:21 PM, Bill Prince wrote: When they got into bed with Clearwire (AKA Clear), and were doing ~~ 50 licensed links per day, there was speculation what might happen to them if/when Clear went toes up. It happened, but the hysteresis of that reaction is pretty interesting. On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Adam Moffett < [email protected] > wrote: <blockquote> What Mikrotik did right is that if you know the GUI then you probably know the CLI. I.E.: Clicking IP -> Firewall -> NAT is the same as typing "/ip firewall nat" ------ Original Message ------ From: "Robert Andrews" < [email protected] > To: [email protected] Sent: 8/3/2017 1:09:52 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] DW shutsdown <blockquote> I love a CLI, _as a backup_ for those times that I only have text access. But give me a GUI. My favorite is still the Mikrotik custom gui but there has to be a web one as well. On 08/03/2017 09:55 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: <blockquote> I feel about the same. I'm not scared of a CLI. I just don't have the time to learn and remember everybody's syntax. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Rory Conaway" < [email protected] <mailto: [email protected] >> To: " [email protected] " < [email protected] <mailto: [email protected] >> Sent: 8/3/2017 12:51:52 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] DW shutsdown <blockquote> Ha, yea. I wrestled a Grizzly Bear once, 15-20 seconds late it was all over so this doesn’t scare me J. With the amount of equipment we have to work with, it’s impossible to be a command line expert in everything. GUI’s are far more universal. Had to put up a Sub-10 80GHz radio yesterday. 5 minutes through the GUI, caught up. Dragonwave, 2 support calls, and 2 guys for 4 hours to get our first link up. Guess which one will never get a P.O. from our company in the future. Rory *From:*Af [mailto: [email protected] <mailto: [email protected] >] *On Behalf Of *Steve Jones *Sent:* Thursday, August 3, 2017 9:47 AM *To:* [email protected] <mailto: [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] DW shutsdown Uh oh, you just poked the cli commando bear On Aug 3, 2017 11:44 AM, "Rory Conaway" < [email protected] <mailto: [email protected] >> wrote: We just put some up and weren’t impressed. When you call tech support and they make you feel like a second class tech because you don’t use command line entries instead of the GUI, that’s pretty much the end of our relationship with that company going forward. GUI’s are important to reducing training and being able to have more techs handle basic support which in turn reduces costs and improves support times. How that message hasn’t gotten through to some companies is beyond me. Rory *From:*Af [mailto: [email protected] <mailto: [email protected] >] *On Behalf Of *Jon Langeler *Sent:* Thursday, August 3, 2017 9:38 AM *To:* [email protected] <mailto: [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] DW shutsdown Dragonwave was always higher priced but I could never figure out the advantages. Jon Langeler Michwave Technologies, Inc. On Aug 3, 2017, at 11:48 AM, Sterling Jacobson < [email protected] <mailto: [email protected] >> wrote: Wow. I wonder how that happened? Used to be one of the forefront in that market. Just couldn’t keep pace with the industry? I bet that happens to Ceragon in the next year or two. *From:* Af [mailto: [email protected] ] *On Behalf Of *Gino A. Villarini *Sent:* Thursday, August 3, 2017 9:42 AM *To:* [email protected] <mailto: [email protected] > *Subject:* [AFMUG] DW shutsdown http://www.rcrwireless.com/20170803/business/backhaul-firm-dragonwave-enters-receivership-tag17 /*Gino A. Villarini*/ President Metro Office Park #18 Suite 304 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968 <image001.png> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> -- -- bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com </blockquote>
