FirstNet Coverage Inside Your Building
Joseph Schmelzer
Tech Business and Product Generalist. Focused on 3D Heterogeneous Integration and related with Glass (Fused Silica). Semiconductor Packaging. Product Development. IMAPS Member.
You’re a FirstNet subscriber. You’re dealing with a crisis, on your mobile phone, in your office. You’re on the move from one part of your building to another, coordinating, collaborating, providing leadership. You go from the first floor office up the stairwell to the second floor.
YOU DROP YOUR CALL.
Everyone in the building knows coverage in the stairwell sucks, but no one thought about the impact that cellular dead zones might have in a time when communications were most critical…
As FirstNet wins more converts, indoor coverage for FirstNet has very quickly become a thing. In Washington, D.C., FirstNet coverage is being mandated indoors. Many more will follow.
FirstNet is based on cellular technology. While we all know and love its awesomeness, those of us in the business of providing cellular coverage understand intimately how difficult it is to deliver inside a building. If you’ve listened to any of my webinars you’ve probably heard ad nauseum the myriad reasons why it’s such a challenge. From regional topography, tower distance, exterior building coatings for energy efficiency, interior building furnishings and layout, network loading, etc etc. We’re not trying to make excuses, it’s just physics. A lot of time the carriers take the heat for any coverage gaps (and rightly so) but often they have done nearly everything within their power to provide great experiences. It’s not realistic, or desirable, to want another cell tower on every tall thing…
However, Cel-Fi has an easy solve for FirstNet dead zones.
It’s called GO RED. Reasonably priced, relatively easy to install, a donor and a server antenna, and power, and you can have the same great outside FirstNet coverage INSIDE. Even in the hardest to reach locations. Cel-Fi GO RED covers 10-15K square feet, and so offers a lot of flexibility in deployment. In a couple of hours you can completely eliminate any dead zones in your building. If you have a large space, or multiple locations to cover, multiple units can be deployed without fear of interference.
Nextivity staff and our partners would love to help you get great FirstNet coverage.
www.cel-fi.com/go-red for more details.
Working at Tessco
5 年Kudos to FirstNet for helping to keep our First Responders safe!
CELL SIGNAL PROS-President
5 年I would like to note that a typical installation will require a mount for the outside donor antenna in many cases, sometimes extended mast or placement on a tower leg.? Donor antenna choice is critical based on available signal from the towers.? At entry a polyphaser & proper grouding is required.? Indoors may require Plenum rated LMR cable (we recommend whether required or not) and cables should be cut to length to minimize loss and these cables will require termination of cables with N-connectors tyically.? If more than one indoor coverage antenna is required, then splitters or directional taps will be required.? I would highly recommend these networks be installed by a certified, trained integrator with proper training and test equipment to assure the system works in a critical event.??
CELL SIGNAL PROS-President
5 年911 center here in Michigan..went in today!