He said, "Dragonwave did it right by having both ports next to one another and on a plane of the unit that is free and clear of obstruction."
Unless you are mounting to a pre-existing wall mount mast that is very short depth from the wall, and radio below roof line. In that situation, Trango fit beautifully, and Dragonwave didn't. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven G McGehee" <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 8:21 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] 11Ghz BH comparison- >I agree with Randy, definitely some quirks in the firmware, although > I've been told by them that v1.23 is in the works. In terms of actual > performance, assuming a solid deployment, etc., the Apexes work great. > We have several DW in 11Ghz as well, which in comparison have given us > zero problem. But, the Apexes are a lot cheaper and if they didn't have > a quirky firmware and some hardware design issues, I'd come extremely > close to considering them as solid as a Dragonwave. > > ..and by hardware design issues, I just really disliked the placement of > the ports. If you're running direct power or using fiber, the ports are > a real pain to get to. They're covered up by the same grommet/weathering > as the Atlas/T-Link45 bridges, but the spacing is /really/ tight to try > to get anything larger than a 16 awg power cable in, much less that and > fiber. It uses the same type of molex power-plug that the Bridgewaves > do, but it's much harder to get plugged in. Additionally, the Data and > Management (copper) ports are at a 90 degree angle to one another on the > actual unit, so one faces down, and the other faces left or right, > depending on how you have it attached to the antenna. How you rotate the > Apex determines its polarity (like a BW, etc), but due to the hardware > design and having a port facing left or right, this means that it's > impossible to plug into said port when you're mounting it in such a way > that this port faces your mast, because the weathering piece (same type > as the DWs come with) is too large. Dragonwave did it right by having > both ports next to one another and on a plane of the unit that is free > and clear of obstruction. > > Hope that helps -- bottomline, these work great but they still do need > some important firmware tweaks and can be a pain during install. If you > can get by with that, give them a serious look. Overall, we've been > happy with our 4 pairs. > > Thanks. > > > Randy Cosby wrote: >> 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
