1. CHOOSING THE BEST TECHNOLOGY
IBTUF V
CHOOSING
THE BEST
TECHNOLOGY

2. Does One Size fit ALL?

3. THE CHOICES

4. COMPARISONS

5. Keeping pace with the Changes
OUR CHALLENGES
Keeping pace with the Changes
New Equipment
New Manufacturers
New Spectrums
New Technologies
New Tools Required
Understanding the needs
The Service Providers
The Venue
Avoiding the “Comfort Zone”
Remaining “Technology Agnostic”

6. A Neutral Approach Weighting Preferred Create a Matrix Important
Ranking the Equipment is done relative to the needs of your customers.
Weighting
Preferred
Important
Required
Create a Matrix
Product Score
Fails
Below Average
Average
Above Average
Excellent

7. UNIVERSITY CAMPUS NEUTRAL HOST DAS PROJECT NEW CONSTRUCTION
EXAMPLE
UNIVERSITY CAMPUS NEUTRAL HOST DAS PROJECT NEW CONSTRUCTION

8. Design Approach A Phased Approach
Phase I: High Power Outdoor Nodes Designed to provide ALL required outdoor coverage and have the highest possible impact on indoor coverage needs
Phase II: In-Door Reinforcements including Public Safety
DAS Head End Location
Campus MDF (Central To Fiber Plant)
WSP Signal Source
Remote from DAS Head End
OSP Fiber: Provided by Venue from DMark to DMark

9. Design Block Diagram

10. Spectrum’s & Technologies
Public Safety
WSP Spectrums & Technologies
AT&T
700MHz – LTE
Cell A – GSM & UMTS
PCS C4, D – GSM & UMTS
AWS
Sprint
800/900MHz – iDEN/SMR
PCS B – CDMA
2700MHz – WiMax
T-Mobile
PCS A – GSM
Verizon Wireless
Cell B – CDMA/1x-EvDo
PCS E – 1xEvDo

11. Equipment Considerations
Campus Specific
Needed to support all of the waveforms and technologies as listed (VHF, UHF, 700(LTE), CELL, PCS, AWS, WiMax )
Required both High Power Outdoor and Low/Medium Power Indoor modules
Minimize DAS Footprint (Head End and Remote Space Restrictions)
Support Build Requirements
Remote BTS
Centralized Head End
Multiple Coverage Locations
WSP Desires & Considerations
Minimize the number of Deployed Technologies
Conserve OSP Fiber
Separate Paths OR Partitioned Paths

12. Selecting the Technology
No Single Technology Will Do It All !

13. Selecting the Technology
Two Approaches Emerged
Layer 1 = Outdoor Layer 2 = Indoor
Layer 1 = WSP’s Layer 2 = PS
Our Recommendation
A for WSP’s and E for PS

14. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT NEUTRAL HOST DAS UPGRADE PROJECT
EXAMPLE
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT NEUTRAL HOST DAS UPGRADE PROJECT 14

15. The Issues RISK Existing DAS is no longer supported
Spares are not available
No Technical or Repair Services are available
This is a disaster just waiting to happen!
Can’t support Growth
Wasn’t able to support entire initial DAS Deployment
No power to support additional channels and capacity needs
Doesn’t support 4G Technology
System is under powered in existing configuration!

16. Key Considerations
Scalability The new equipment needed to be able to support (1) ALL currently deployed technologies, spectrums and channel counts, (2) channel/spectrum growth to support capacity needs and (3) addition of future 4G Technologies
Fiber Count We looked for technologies that would not exceed the current fiber availability between the Head End Compound and the Remote Head End.
Cabling and Link Budget To avoid the high cost of conduit, we looked for technologies that would be able to use the existing “grandfathered” cabling structure while improving the existing Link Budgets.
Schedule Speed is of the essence in eliminating the risk of catastrophic system failure.

17. A 2 Phased Approach PHASE I
Rapid deployment of an equipment change-out for the existing services.
Eliminate the Risk of Equipment Failure
Improve the existing Link Budgets / System Performance
Addition of Capacity
Should be handled as a maintenance/repair issue since it is equipment only – no cabling.
PHASE II
Addition of Equipment and Infrastructure to support 4G
Process will require “Full Scale” Design, Engineering, Review, Permitting, Deployment, Optimization & ATP Services
Will require additional cabling/conduit layer(s) and Antennas

18. The Existing Infrastructure
24 Strands of SM Fiber from the Compound to Terminal C
12 Strands of SM Fiber to each Remote
3 Sector Design
Each Remote has 6 Coax Ports 4-Low and 2-High

19. Spectrum’s & Technologies
PHASE I
PHASE II

20. Scoring Results
ONLY 3 TECHNOLOGIES FIT THE EXISTING CABLE ARCHITECTURE

21. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT NEUTRAL HOST DAS NEW CONSTRUCTION
EXAMPLE
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT NEUTRAL HOST DAS NEW CONSTRUCTION 21

22. Venue Considerations
Include Public Safety, WiFi n in non-public space
No Outdoor – high power
Indicate if analog signal is going to ride on SM fiber
Limited Head End and Remote Closet Space
Very few IDF/Closets spaced far apart
Airport Operates 24/7
UPS Power requirement (KVA load) including back-up batteries
Cooling requirement at Head End
Airport will own the system
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23. E911 & LTE MIMO Planning Enhanced Positioning
911 Mandates assessed at the County Level
We propose DAS based technology using Co-Pilot Beacons for CDMA systems and LMU’s for GSM systems to facilitate location accuracy to the building of call origin.
LTE MIMO
VzW is planning the first launch of a 4G LTE Network in the US; this technology embraces a MIMO feature.
MIMO requires twice the passive infrastructure of SISO / traditional DAS deployments.
MIMO throughput benefit is not known as a function of IB Morphology Types or Antenna configurations.
VzW LTE MIMO deployments in the 700 MHz band require special/proprietary survey techniques before they can be justified.
Verizon Wireless Confidential and Proprietary Information. Not to be disclosed by LAWA outside of those LAWA employees or agents who have a need to know to conduct an evaluation of the information 23

24. Performance Criteria
Verizon Wireless Confidential and Proprietary Information. Not to be disclosed by LAWA outside of those LAWA employees or agents who have a need to know to conduct an evaluation of the information 24

25. Link Budget
Consideration for existing noise floor and additional DAS created noise is essential in the Design and Deployment phases
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26. Scoring Results

27. Our Task Stay Informed Know what’s coming from the WSP’s
Know what the DAS Manufacturers are offering today AND tomorrow
Understand the Project Needs
How to take advantage of what the Venue has to offer
How to avoid the sensitive or restrictive Venue Elements
What the TOTAL technology needs are for both the Venue and the WSP’s
Provide an Objective Evaluation of the available DAS choices

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