Anyone have experience with Proxim's tsunami quickbridge for wireless
connectivity between buildings at line of site distances under 1 mile?
It's cheaper than Cisco and looks good on paper. Looking for the good
bad and ugly. Thanks in advance!
-Eric
Not a direct answer but I can highly recommend Airaya http://www.airaya.com
I have a number of their bridges operating including one of six miles.
Roy
We're using a Western Mutiplex Tsunami 100 5.3 -5.8 Ghz over a 4 mile
shot and it has worked flawlessly except for a couple realy bad rain storms
and 1 lightnening strike which whipped out a power supply that was easily
replaced at radio shack.
Western Multiplex,
Model# Tsunami 100
27720-1a1 5.3 - 5.8 Ghz -
D. Scott Smith
Operations Manager
Core Communications, Inc.
I just installed a Quickbridge 60 recently. It's pretty nice. The throughput is good over a .75 mile link. I was able to successfully push ~20Mbps with an iperf test. Installation was easy relative to some of the other equipment we have installed. The feed line is UTP and the radio gets power over the UTP cable. The uplink interface is 100BaseT which is easy. My only complaint is that it is not remotely manageable. You have to have direct console to make any config changes which means taking the link down. We have another .11a system in production made by RadioLan and it is plagued by the same design flaw. Stupid... I'd like to compare it to the Cisco one. I bet it is more manageable.
BJ
Just a quick note, I'm running the Proxim AP600 units (Tsunami baby brothers) with great results. 48-54Mb/s for .5 mile shot. Easily remote configurable, quick setup and much cheaper than the Tsunami if all your doing is a quick P2P.
my $.02
Scott
Brandon Pinsky wrote:
I just installed a Quickbridge 60 recently. It's pretty nice. The throughput is good over a .75 mile link. I was able to successfully push ~20Mbps with an iperf test. Installation was easy relative to some of the other equipment we have installed. The feed line is UTP and the radio gets power over the UTP cable. The uplink interface is 100BaseT which is easy. My only complaint is that it is not remotely manageable. You have to have direct console to make any config changes which means taking the link down. We have another .11a system in production made by RadioLan and it is plagued by the same design flaw. Stupid... I'd like to compare it to the Cisco one. I bet it is more manageable.
BJ
Anyone have experience with Proxim's tsunami quickbridge for wireless
connectivity between buildings at line of site distances under 1 mile?
It's cheaper than Cisco and looks good on paper. Looking for the good
bad and ugly. Thanks in advance!-Eric
check http://www.alvarion.com
Curtis
You also might want to ask the folks on :
http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-wireless/
who seem to use every vendor known to man.
--Michael
I just installed a Quickbridge 60 recently. It's pretty nice. The
throughput is good over a .75 mile link. I was able to successfully
push ~20Mbps with an iperf test. Installation was easy relative to
some of the other equipment we have installed. The feed line is UTP
and the radio gets power over the UTP cable. The uplink interface is
100BaseT which is easy. My only complaint is that it is not remotely
manageable. You have to have direct console to make any config changes
which means taking the link down. We have another .11a system in
I believe that this is fixed in the latest release of code...
bill
I have used Airya (found easily using google). Fast, cheap, has DES, an
overall good experience.
Cheers,
Doug
Douglas S. Peeples
Technology Assurance Labs
Co-Founder
dpeeples@talabs.com
www.TALabs.com
Cheaper than Cisco? Doesn't take much! 
Is this point to point or point to multipoint? One link, or multiple links? There's plenty of products to do campus WLAN's, and the Quickbridges are pretty good. Proxim also has the MP11 and MP11a line, which I believe is cheaper than the Quickbridges, but uses the same spectrum. Probably has slightly lower throughput, but don't know if that's as important.
The Quickbridge is an older product, and as someone said, the interface shows it. The newer products (AP600, AP2500, AP4000, and the MP11/MP11a's) all have a very similar web interface that's fairly intuitive. All of it will work (especially at <1mile LOS), it's a question of what other features you're expecting/looking for.
Rob Nelson
ronelson@vt.edu