What is street price on the Trango licensed?
Brad Belton wrote: > Randy makes a couple points that I concur with. The Apex fiber weather port > is for the birds (IMO), but we like that Trango opted for a SFP port rather > than forcing you to choose Single-Mode or Multi-Mode at the time of order > like BridgeWave does. Ethernet weather ports work OK, but again not > optimal as they should have been designed to allow for a larger diameter > outdoor CAT5 cable. > > We haven't used the in-band management option as most if not all our PtP > paths have multiple feeds that allow us out-of-band management access to the > radios. > > Trango GigaLINK reliability has been great. We have Giga 11GHz serial > numbers 00000001, 00000002, 00000005, 00000007 among other early units in a > variety of frequencies. All have performed very well. In the few cases > where we have needed support Trango has been extremely responsive. > > The Apex units have also (for the most part) been good. We had an unusual > cable length (within spec) issue with an Apex radio that we couldn't resolve > other than to move the DC injector closer to the radio. A nice feature of > the Apex is it allows you to use the fiber port on one side and the copper > port on the other side of a path. This is useful if the cable run length on > one side requires fiber, but the other side doesn't. > > The Apex hitless modulation functionality appears to work well, however with > ATPC and a properly engineered path we rarely if ever see our Apex paths > change modulation. If you plan to push the RF limits of a path I would feel > comfortable with the Trango Apex hitless modulation working as advertised. > > Luke, I would be happy to spend some time on the phone with you discussing > in greater detail. I'd like to bend your ear a bit on a couple questions I > have regarding a DragonWave all ODU radio set we recently inherited. Not > sure if we should just punt it on EBay or possibly deploy it. > > Best, > > > Brad > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Randy Cosby > Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 5:39 PM > To: [email protected]; WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] 11Ghz BH comparison- > > The one I have up works fine. There are quirks in the firmware, but no > show-stoppers. Inband management is still a work in progress. Don't > particularly care for the fiber port cover design, but if you're using > copper, it's fine (unless you use extra-large / heavy ethernet that may > not fit). > > Randy > > > On 2/11/2010 4:28 PM, Luke Pack wrote: > >> We have quite a few Dragon wave 11Ghz links deployed right now. We are >> looking at another path of 11Ghz now and have come across the apex >> system by Trango. We use the Trangolink45s on many links off the >> licensed path currently. I'm looking for people's "real-world" >> experience with the Trango Apex system (since they are relatively new) >> and a contrast of this system to the Horizon Compacts from Dragonwave. >> I know their implementation is similar to that of the horizon units >> however, what seems to be the Apex failure rate, software features, >> hitless adaptive modulation success, etc. >> >> Thanks all! >> >> >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> >> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
