iBwave Wi-Fi Reviews

iBwave Wi-Fi is excellent. My primary use case for the solution are predictive RF heatmaps that include all bands of cellular and Wi-Fi.

iBwave Wi-Fi has improved our sales by allowing customers to see predictive heatmaps for proposed projects.

What I find the most valuable about iBwave Wi-Fi is the solution's superior modeling and capability compared to other tools like Ekahau. 

The cost of the solution could be improved. It's extraordinarily expensive. 

I have been working with iBwave Wi-Fi for 10 years.

The stability is fine. It works great.

The solution has a lot of room for scalability. So, I can go from a single room up to a couple million square feet. It meets my scalability needs. 

iBwave Wi-Fi's tech support is great. They pick up their phones. I have no complaints. 

Positive

No I did not previously use a different solution. This is the solution I was trained on and I've been using it since.

Deployment does not take long at all. iBwave Wi-Fi is ready to go as soon as the license is activated.  

The deployment was done in-house without help from an integrator.

I can't really come up with exact numbers on ROI, but we have used the tool to bring in new customers and to do a lot of projects for those customers.

iBwave Wi-Fi costs $40,000 for the full license and everything else for the first-time purchase. There's license renewals but for the full design license, there's three modules. So to make it a complete design tool, you need all three. I can't remember what the renewal costs exactly; it's around five grand a year.

On a scale of one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best, I would give this tool a 10 because it is feature-rich. 

Since I started using this tool, I've looked at Ekahau and AirMagnet. Those are good tools for WiFi but they do not offer the level of modeling detail that iBwave Wi-Fi has.

The advice I would give to others looking into implementing this product is this: to be able to use it fully, you will need to understand LTE and cellular, not just WiFi. However, if you have a little bit of CAD background, you will be able to pick the tool up quickly.

We use this product for the study of indoor coverage for many in-building systems such as shopping malls, hotels, and business centers. This is used for DAS design to improve the cellular coverage for indoor places. With this, we can offer our clients a good solution to improve cellular systems in their locations.

This solution provides us with the ability to obtain an exact equipment list report. This reduces the time needed to calculate the cost of the project.

The most valuable feature is report generation. These include the equipment list, area, and compliance. These reports help to calculate the cost of the project and give us project documentation to present to our client.

The 3D Coverage is a good feature that shows the signal propagation in three dimensions.

There are many things that should be improved in this solution.

For example, I would like to have more functionality to generate and delete walls, along with a good undo button for reversing the operations.

I would like to be able to see two buildings at the same time so that you can create a campus view.

Two years.

I did not use another solution prior to this one.

This is the only solution that I evaluated.

Our primary use case is designing ERRCS (Emergency Responder Radio Communication Systems) and carriers solutions for large facilities.

The stability and feature set of the application are top notch and can't be matched.

The most valuable features are the signal coverage and prediction capabilities.

It would do iBwave well to become more involved with their clients. They need feedback, and I need feedback.