Portfolio Eases 4G Transition for Carriers
Portfolio Eases 4G Transition for Carriers
24th March, 2009
Europe : ADC announced that its wireless precision coverage and capacity solutions portfolio is designed to significantly ease the way for carriers seeking to migrate their networks to provide 4G services such as WiMAX, HSPA+, and LTE. In booth #8810 at the CTIA Wireless 2009 show, held at the Las Vegas Convention Center, April 1-3,
ADC will show how products such as the FlexWave Prism, FlexWave MMX and InterReach Fusion® provide the network architecture flexibility to speed 4G rollouts while reducing the cost to build and operate legacy and next generation networks.
“With its wide variety of solutions, we believe our wireless portfolio uniquely positions us to address coverage and capacity challenges in the most difficult environments - indoors, on campuses, and in the urban core where people are using their mobile devices,” said Dick Parran ( inset ), president of Network Solutions business unit for ADC. “Our precision coverage portfolio is designed to offer a prudent CAPEX investment for our customer base by delivering coverage and capacity in the sections of the network that are increasingly essential to maintaining and capturing enterprise and consumer revenue.”
ADC has led the distributed antenna system (DAS) market for more than 12 years and supports microcellular networks worldwide in locations such as Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans, New York and Jakarta. The company’s solutions address carriers’ most important next-generation network infrastructure challenges, including CAPEX and OPEX costs, technology convergence and 3G and 4G migration.
For example, ADC’s recently introduced FlexWave Prism offers the benefits of distributed antennas with the capabilities of a remote radio head to deliver 2G, 3G, and 4G services in tunnels, subways, on university campuses, and in urban canyons. The need for small-cell topology in delivering 4G services in these environments requires a DAS solution that brings the next-generation signals closer to the subscriber while supporting legacy voice and data systems. The FlexWave Prism accomplishes these things while also potentially reducing CAPEX and OPEX by more than 30 percent, on average, compared to a traditional cell-site build.
The company’s FlexWave MMX portfolio also is optimized to deliver significant savings in deploying 4G WiMAX. This complete family of WiMAX products includes an all-outdoor, “place anywhere” base station that can provide cost savings of up to 50 percent vs. a traditional cell-site approach. In addition, ADC offers a low-power WiMAX picocell, giving the operator flexibility to target coverage and capacity where needed at the lowest possible cost.
ADC’s InterReach Fusion in-building DAS and portfolio of picocell and microcellular solutions such as InterReach Office and FlexWave™ BSS are designed to deliver similar capital and operational savings while smoothing the transition to 4G services.