Benefits
of an Open DAS Network Architecture
Open DAS networks provide significant economic, performance and operational
advantages for Wireless Service Providers. ExteNet is committed to developing
and deploying Open networks utilizing the Distributed Antenna System
architecture in those areas that provide benefit to Wireless Service
Providers.
| Economic Benefits |
- Efficient use of technical personnel for operations and maintenance.
- Significantly reduced utility and telco costs.
- Increased spectrum efficiency.
- No repetitive site acquisition costs for unsuccessful sites.
- Elimination of construction and site acquisition costs for
multiple sites to add capacity.
- Reduced future base station infrastructure deployment costs.
- Need to build costly, difficult and sometimes impossible
conventional sites, to sustain capacity/quality is obviated.
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| Technical Benefits |
- Enhanced quality of coverage with less fading effect.
- Increased spectrum efficiency.
- Ability to add and manage capacity centrally from the BTS
Hub.
- Allows for specific tailored coverage to address existing
RF holes in the network.
- Elimination of a majority of ongoing drive testing to verify
RF performance.
- Ability to have multiple network configurations for specific
events or seasonal shifts in traffic.
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| Operational Benefits |
- Efficient use of technical personnel for operations and maintenance.
- Reduction in utility and telco management requirements.
- Much easier to troubleshoot and respond to network problems.
- All radio resource capacity enhancements are centrally implemented
at the BTS Hub.
- All BTS maintenance is performed centrally at the BTS Hub.
- Significant reduction in spare parts inventory, repair costs
and personnel requirements.
- Elimination of access issues for maintenance and repair.
- Elimination of costly network inventory and audit costs.
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| Quality & Availability Benefits |
- Elimination of a majority of telco (T1) connections will
improve network quality and availability.
- A significant reduction in dropped calls.
- Ease of troubleshooting facilitates rapid response and resolution
of network problems.
- A loss of a network component affects a much smaller geographic
area.
- A line of sight network that provides a ubiquitous RF coverage
blanket.
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| Flexibility & Adaptability Benefits |
- Ability to respond to end-user market dynamics by moving
capacity as needed.
- Ability to add subscriber “Load” to the network
and deploy new technologies without worrying about an increase
in operating expense.
- The need to build costly, difficult and sometimes impossible
conventional sites, to sustain capacity and/or quality is obviated.
- All required radio resource capacity enhancements or modifications
are quickly implemented at the BTS Hub.
- Provides a platform for easy and rapid deployment of new
technologies.
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| Aesthetics |
- Compact nature of the equipment satisfies aesthetic concerns
of communities and their residents.
- Reduces the requirement for towers and rooftop antennas which
helps improve or maintain overall community aesthetics.
- The common fiber backbone addresses aesthetic concerns by
reducing the “guitar string” effect of multiple
fiber strands on utility infrastructure.
- Alleviates citizen concerns regarding the proliferation of
unsightly wireless infrastructure.
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