And unlike the other products, which use direct sequence radio technology, BreezeLink is based on a frequency-hopping design that is both an asset and a drawback. You have to reconfigure other products to overcome interference. However, all that hopping carries the price of higher latency. BreezeCom allows you to minimize latency, but doing so increases your susceptibility to transmission errors. From a performance standpoint, BreezeLink turned in the slowest numbers, registering 84 percent throughput in our T1 crossover cable test, even after we adjusted the factory defaults to maximize data performance, which resulted in advisory alarms on our console.
Configuration occurs via a console port that provides a menu-oriented interface.
We found the interface to be a little confusing in places, especially related to configuration of remote units. But on the whole, it is easy to use. Our initial attempts at configuration were unsuccessful, requiring some minor changes. Unfortunately, the units kept rebooting periodically, a feature that's designed to return the units to a known state automatically should something go wrong. The BreezeLink path design has a little less margin for error.