The next in the series of Radio Frequency Systems’ ‘WiMAX-ready’ adaptive antenna systems – a truly global wideband suite – will be unveiled at the 3GSM World Congress 2007 exhibition in Barcelona. The new global W4AxxW antenna solution is part of RFS’s broad and growing suite of IEEE 802.16 worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) – compliant solution set – a set which will include: antennas, RF conditioning solutions, and ‘WiMAX-ready’ in-building solutions.
RFS’s new wideband W4AxxW solution set streamlines and simplifies global WiMAX deployment strategies. Comprising just two models–the W4A25W-90ANV (2.3 to 2.7GHz) and the W4A35W-90ANV (3.3 to 3.8GHz)–the new wideband antenna series supports the widest range of sub-bands currently allocated for WiMAX applications across Europe, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region. Achieving global reach with just two models, the new RFS W4AxxW dramatically cuts inventory requirements and costs, and improves deployment efficiencies.
Purpose-built to meet the exacting needs of emerging WiMAX broadband wireless data networks, RFS’s new wideband W4AxxW series antenna system features precision beam-pattern shaping. The wideband W4AxxW series antenna system provides network managers with a powerful tool to ensure optimal data throughput and a reduction in overall cell-to-cell interference across the WiMAX network.
The RFS WiMAX exhibit at 3GSM World Congress 2007 will also include a sneak preview of its ‘in-development’ WiMAX remote radio head (RRH). Designed to provide transmit output power of 4 watts per channel, the new unit boasts one of the industry’s lightest and most compact form factors. With a total package volume of just 10 litres and weighing only 10kg, the new RFS WiMAX RRH can be either pole-mounted at the tower top, or wall-mounted at tower base.
Based on an open industry standard, the RFS WiMAX RRH will offer premium performance, compact size and reliability. The new RRH is expected to be commercially available at end-2007/early-2008.
RFS will also unveil a new end-to-end solution set that allows remote control and monitoring of tower-top RF components. Fully compliant with the latest revision of the open communications standard of the Antenna Interface Standards Group (AISG), the new RFS suite empowers carriers to cost-effectively optimise their networks in real-time.
The new RFS AISG version 2-compliant product suite frees the end-user from the inherent restrictions associated with proprietary control and monitoring systems, ensuring fast-track network retrofits and greenfield deployments. The solution makes it possible for carriers to control and monitor tower-top components either locally (from the tower base), or remotely from the network’s operations and maintenance centre (OMC).
A true end-to-end 3G solution, RFS’s new AISG version 2-compliant product suite comprises all key antenna line elements–the control network interface (CNI), a selection of tower-mount amplifiers (TMA), an antenna control unit (ACU) and a modem bias-tee. “The day-to-day, hour-to-hour–and even minute-to-minute–network RF monitoring and optimisation that the RFS AISGv2-compliant solution provides is essential in today’s competitive wireless world,” said David Kiesling, RFS Global Product Manager Wireless Infrastructure Solutions. “This is particularly crucial in advanced broadband wireless data solutions, along with mature 2G networks.”
The new RFS AISG version 2-compliant solution set includes RFS’s innovative Network Element Manager (NEM) software – considered to be one of the most intuitive and user-friendly software interface for an AISG version 2 solution set.