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Did you know that close to 80 percent of mobile traffic occurs indoors, but of the 50 billion square meters of commercial real estate, only about two percent includes an in-building wireless system? This infographic highlights the multiple challenges to supplying in-building coverage and capacity and a forecast about market growth
No two cities are alike. For some, population density is focused in a central location, with towering buildings that combine residential and commercial interests. Others find their infrastructure more dispersed—an uneven distribution of people and buildings massed around a variety of geographic features.
Such disparities make outdoor small cell/metro cell site deployments in urban environments more than a cookie-cutter exercise. Each site is unique, with its own coverage and capacity requirements, physical and natural boundaries, and zoning considerations. We can help.
CommScope Metro Cell Concealment Solutions include three families of fully integrated, customized solutions that boost network capacity and service coverage, no matter the challenges:
Top of the pole: lightweight and low profile; ideal for existing pole deployments in public areas
Middle of the pole: compatible with virtually all poles; consistent appearance
Bottom of the pole: ideal for high-power radios; decorative options
This development by Decibel Systems (later acquired by Andrew) enabled the neutral host distribution of cellular network signals and became the default method for providing indoor wireless coverage and capacity inside large structures and outdoor venues. Subsequent innovations included digital transport, outdoor DAS, the first digital point-to-multipoint DAS and the first direct CPRI interface to DAS systems. www.commscope.com/top-40-innovations/
No two cities are alike. For some, population density is focused in a central location, with towering buildings that combine residential and commercial interests. Others find their infrastructure more dispersed—an uneven distribution of people and buildings massed around a variety of geographic features.
Such disparities make outdoor small cell/metro cell site deployments in urban environments more than a cookie-cutter exercise. Each site is unique, with its own coverage and capacity requirements, physical and natural boundaries, and zoning considerations. We can help.
CommScope Metro Cell Concealment Solutions include three families of fully integrated, customized solutions that boost network capacity and service coverage, no matter the challenges:
Top of the pole: lightweight and low profile; ideal for existing pole deployments in public areas
Middle of the pole: compatible with virtually all poles; consistent appearance
Bottom of the pole: ideal for high-power radios; decorative options
No two cities are alike. For some, population density is focused in a central location, with towering buildings that combine residential and commercial interests. Others find their infrastructure more dispersed—an uneven distribution of people and buildings massed around a variety of geographic features.
Such disparities make outdoor small cell/metro cell site deployments in urban environments more than a cookie-cutter exercise. Each site is unique, with its own coverage and capacity requirements, physical and natural boundaries, and zoning considerations. We can help.
CommScope Metro Cell Concealment Solutions include three families of fully integrated, customized solutions that boost network capacity and service coverage, no matter the challenges:
Top of the pole: lightweight and low profile; ideal for existing pole deployments in public areas
Middle of the pole: compatible with virtually all poles; consistent appearance
Bottom of the pole: ideal for high-power radios; decorative options
No two cities are alike. For some, population density is focused in a central location, with towering buildings that combine residential and commercial interests. Others find their infrastructure more dispersed—an uneven distribution of people and buildings massed around a variety of geographic features.
Such disparities make outdoor small cell/metro cell site deployments in urban environments more than a cookie-cutter exercise. Each site is unique, with its own coverage and capacity requirements, physical and natural boundaries, and zoning considerations. We can help.
CommScope Metro Cell Concealment Solutions include three families of fully integrated, customized solutions that boost network capacity and service coverage, no matter the challenges:
Top of the pole: lightweight and low profile; ideal for existing pole deployments in public areas
Middle of the pole: compatible with virtually all poles; consistent appearance
Bottom of the pole: ideal for high-power radios; decorative options
Check out the cover of the Andrew Communicator from October 1981.
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No two cities are alike. For some, population density is focused in a central location, with towering buildings that combine residential and commercial interests. Others find their infrastructure more dispersed—an uneven distribution of people and buildings massed around a variety of geographic features.
Such disparities make outdoor small cell/metro cell site deployments in urban environments more than a cookie-cutter exercise. Each site is unique, with its own coverage and capacity requirements, physical and natural boundaries, and zoning considerations. We can help.
CommScope Metro Cell Concealment Solutions include three families of fully integrated, customized solutions that boost network capacity and service coverage, no matter the challenges:
Top of the pole: lightweight and low profile; ideal for existing pole deployments in public areas
Middle of the pole: compatible with virtually all poles; consistent appearance
Bottom of the pole: ideal for high-power radios; decorative options
No two cities are alike. For some, population density is focused in a central location, with towering buildings that combine residential and commercial interests. Others find their infrastructure more dispersed—an uneven distribution of people and buildings massed around a variety of geographic features.
Such disparities make outdoor small cell/metro cell site deployments in urban environments more than a cookie-cutter exercise. Each site is unique, with its own coverage and capacity requirements, physical and natural boundaries, and zoning considerations. We can help.
CommScope Metro Cell Concealment Solutions include three families of fully integrated, customized solutions that boost network capacity and service coverage, no matter the challenges:
Top of the pole: lightweight and low profile; ideal for existing pole deployments in public areas
Middle of the pole: compatible with virtually all poles; consistent appearance
Bottom of the pole: ideal for high-power radios; decorative options
Sentinel is the world’s first cost-effective European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Class 4-compliant microwave antenna, which enables network operators to add more microwave links in a given area using the same frequencies but without causing interference. Class 4 antennas have very low side lobes in the antenna radiation pattern, so they minimize interference with adjacent antennas. Sentinel accomplishes this with a compact, highly-integrated antenna reflector. Prior to Sentinel, this level of performance could only be achieved with highly complex dual offset reflector antennas, which were too expensive for wide adoption in the market.
Digital signal processing was used for filtering of BTS donor or mobile signals, to equalize donor link fluctuations by maintaining constant pilot power in the repeater zone, and to cancel the echo between coverage and donor antenna. The Nod-M and the Node-C were band-selective. The Node-G was a GSM channel-selective frequency-hopping following repeater with echo cancellation. Sprint and Telstra have deployed a high number of those repeaters to provide coverage to remote locations with low to medium capacity requirements. The ease of installation and operation was highly commended by the customers. Repeater deployment was simplified significantly as the antenna isolation was no longer a critical parameter for the repeater site. This product established the digital signal processing within RF repeater and DAS systems where signal analysis was enabling the installation of the systems without the need of any external measurement equipment. The performance of the echo-cancellation is still as good or better than other commercially available products. The technical innovation and market success of this product laid the foundation for successor digital filtering and distribution products like the Node-A, Node-AM, and ION-E. www.commscope.com/top-40-innovations/
Base station antennas with RET enable operators to adjust the beam tilt of a base station antenna remotely (for example, from an office location), and the tilt adjustment mechanism (electrical tilt) doesn’t require manual adjustment, which could degrade network performance. Since this CommScope innovation, the wireless industry has widely adopted the use and deployment of RET antennas over the past 15 years and CommScope has shipped billions of dollars of RET-enabled antennas. www.commscope.com/40th-Anniversary/
Base station antennas with RET enable operators to adjust the beam tilt of a base station antenna remotely (for example, from an office location), and the tilt adjustment mechanism (electrical tilt) doesn’t require manual adjustment, which could degrade network performance. Since this CommScope innovation, the wireless industry has widely adopted the use and deployment of RET antennas over the past 15 years and CommScope has shipped billions of dollars of RET-enabled antennas. www.commscope.com/top-40-innovations/
SnapStak hangers are stackable, snap-in coaxial cable hangers that are easy to use, reducing installation time and cost. When cellular network builds picked up steam in the late 1990s, towers were getting too full to handle more cables on the tower face. Development of this hanger by Andrew Corporation (now part of CommScope) allowed cables to be stacked vertically, which increased cable capacity on the tower and changed the installation paradigm in the industry. Stackable up to three deep when securing thinner cables, these innovative hangers feature retention tabs on the spring fork, which holds cables in place yet yields to tower movements and absorbs vibrations. Made from stainless steel, SnapStak provide exceptional reliability and durability, even in the most corrosive environments or punishing weather conditions. It became the predominant cable hanging solution in the wireless industry. Andrew, CommScope and its licensed partners have sold millions of these hangers since their release. www.commscope.com/top-40-innovations/
Repeater that enabled cellular operators to provide coverage with lower cost installations without requiring backhaul. This Allen Telecom development established repeaters as standard elements in wireless networks. It generated more than $500 million in revenue and made Allen Telecom, which bought Decibel, Mikom, Tekmar, Forem and eventually was bought by Andrew. www.commscope.com/top-40-innovations/
SiteRise is world’s first factory integrated and tested tower top solution. It drastically improves quality by eliminating field installation errors and improves speed of deployment by reducing installation time. SiteRise has changed the way customers think about the top of the tower. Factory integration and full system testing have enhanced both quality and speed of deployment, especially in regions with diverse tower rigging skill and experience. www.commscope.com/top-40-innovations/
Up until this innovation, all microwave antennas (including the very early ValuLine products) used fabricated waveguide feeds requiring craft skills to assemble and then manually tune. This innovation enabled the high volume assembly of microwave feed systems and transformed the need to tune to a purely verification test. In doing so, it allowed substantial reductions in cost as well as being the precursor to the more modern feed systems in use today. www.commscope.com/top-40-innovations/
Radomes, which are weatherproof enclosures that protect microwave antennas, used to be frequency-specific. For example, a two-foot microwave antenna could require eight different radomes, depending on the frequency band in which they were operating. In addition, each radome required a thickness that had to be very precisely controlled. CommScope’s development of the industry’s first Broadband Radome, using an expanded polystyrene foam base that is virtually invisible to RF, enabled one Radome to replace all these, and the part is not so dimensionally sensitive. This has led to faster delivery times to customers through more efficient production, lower inventory requirements, and the ability to locally configure the radomes without sophisticated equipment or highly-trained staff. www.commscope.com/top-40-innovations/
GeoLENs® Location Measurement Unit (formerly Geometrix™) was a network overlay mobile location system for computing the location of mobile phones. It involved sensors being deployed at cell sites making precise signaling measurements and passing these on to a geolocation control system for location computation. The system was deployed in a 99.999% high availability redundant architecture for multiple cellular carriers. CommScope manufactured and deployed sensors at more than 20,000 cell sites for a variety of US wireless operators, and thousands of emergency callers on wireless devices were found every day. It was the first system ever to deliver a mobile location of a live 911 call to a public safety access point. This innovation paved the way for the location systems and services enjoyed today, common in emergency and commercial applications. www.commscope.com/top-40-innovations/