iBwave Wi-Fi Reviews

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.

• AutoCAD import
• Network parts modeling and connection
• 3D representation
• Automatic calculations and reporting

• Ability to offer professional engineering services even though we're not using it for Wi-Fi only, but it allows doing some technical studies on various proposed solutions to come up with an optimum design even for sites under construction

We hope iBwave improves the performance of large files and simplifies some routine tasks even further.

I have used it for five years.

We had to use a powerful machine to overcome typical performance issues with large files.

There were very few crashes over the usage span, especially for a situation where memory is pushed to the limit.

We have not encountered any scalability issues, but it is very costly to renew the annual subscription to get the latest versions and features.

Customer service is 9/10.

Technical support is 9/10.

We have not used a different solution before iBwave.

Setup is always straightforward and user-friendly.

We used our own expertise to deploy the solution.

• Getting exposure to reputable clients and projects

There are many options to select from using iBwave's sales team help.

Before choosing this product, we did not evaluate other options.

Although the interface is user friendly, it's better to get well trained to use the solution in order to benefit from its detailed feature set.

Our primary use case for iBwave is for high-quality heatmap generation. We use these high-quality maps and the database functions for both pre-sales and final deliverables.

Before iBwave, we used a number of tools to collect and report RF data, and also Visio to create some of the visuals. iBwave replaced most/all of the other programs needed.

I find the high-quality heatmap generation, multi-floor, and wire mapping features to be most valuable. We have also started using the mobile app and it is proving to save us time.

Areas of improvement would include more functionality in the mobile app, expanded reporting features, and some shortcut features.

It has proven to be stable.

I am very impressed with the scalability of this solution.

Customer support is very good. Fast and effective.

We did use AirMagnet as our standard but have switched based on iBwave's ease of use and extended toolset.

This initial setup is straightforward. We have seen database location issues during upgrades.

Our deployment was in-house. The skill level in our company is high.

We find the yearly ROI is found in a single project with a size of >1000 APs (Access points).

I advise others to treat the cost as you would any tooling cost and use the monthly option as needed.

We did evaluate AirMagnet and Ekahau.

It can speed up design of a Wi-Fi network.

It could be improved by improving the speed of the product. 

It crashes often, and is not quite stable. 

Yes, I used tech support. 

I implemented the product. It was straightforward.

I am currently looking for an alternative due to my reluctance with the reliability of this product.