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Innovative 3G Mini Base Station Housed in Shopping Mall Clock |
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The mini base station is environmentally friendly, making it suitable for deployment in a wide variety of situations. Building on the success the company has enjoyed with its wide range of environmental cell site solutions, the telecoms timepiece unit is equally at home on a traditional village green as in or around the most modern of shopping malls. “It’s a highly flexible base station that can service up to six sectors, making it suitable for relatively high density, but localised, cellular traffic situations, such as an in shopping malls and industrial parks,” said Darren Ayres, AlanDick’s group commercial manager. “One of its great features, though, is that it can be customised to meet the needs of the local planning officials and site planners alike. With cosmetic modifications, it can fit into almost any environment – urban or rural,” he explained. This flexibility extends to allowing a mini base station to be housed inside the base unit, which can double up as a versatile seating arrangement. The base unit can be replaced, if necessary, with an alternative fixture - signage or bike racks, for example. “It looks like a classic village clock that’s appropriate to a wide variety of rural and urban situations, but can be customised to meet the needs of environmental and/or planning agencies, without compromising the signal topology that is so necessary to modern base station deployments,” said Ayres. “With 3G’s higher frequencies compared to GSM, there is considerable pressure on our network colleagues to locate 3G base stations closer together. This has resulted in some localised campaigns against the siting of new base stations in urban communities. Our telecoms timepiece allows the networks to install 3G – as well as in-fill 2G – mini base stations, without involving the media attention that such deployments normally attract,” he said. Following extensive testing in the grounds of AlanDick’s Cheltenham headquarters this summer (see photo), the telecoms timepiece will get its first public airing at the forthcoming GSM Africa event in late November, when the company expects considerable interest from the African cellular operators. “We’ve already enjoyed a positive reaction to our innovative approach to base station deployments at the Clearwater shopping mall in Johannesburg. The telecoms timepiece base station offers many of the facilities of a micro base station/leaky feeder system to shopping malls and other large buildings, but with the unique advantage of being able to be retro-fitted to such installations,” said Ayres. So what’s the secret of the telecoms timepiece’s success – apart from the unique approach the company has come up with the unit’s design? “We’ve used advanced composite materials in its construction. This allows us to offer a stable gel coat, colour and finish that can be changed to meet virtually all client requirements,” said Ayres. |
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Europe
: AlanDick has developed a base station that looks like a village
or shopping mall clock.