Wireless

February 15, 2006
RFS tackles co-location/rural conundrum at Convergence India 2006

MUNICH -- At Convergence India 2006, leading RF technology group, Radio Frequency Systems (RFS), will exhibit its extensive range of end-to-end base station RF solutions, a solution-set tailored to meet India's most immediate co-location and rural coverage requirements.

Sukant Chakravarty, country manager, RFS India, cited two key trends behind re-shaping of India's cellular sector: one urban and the other rural. "In high subscriber-density urban areas, government, regulatory and planning bodies are demanding that operators consider co-siting their base station systems. Meanwhile, operators moving into India's low subscriber-density rural areas are faced with the challenge of realizing almost immediate coverage over very larger cell areas."

Both these trends present unique cellular network deployment and management challenges--interference in the urban co-location case, and optimal coverage in the rural. "Our goal is to work closely with our customers--urban and rural--to meet these challenges cost-efficiently and to world-class performance standards," said Chakravarty. "At Convergence India 2006, we will demonstrate the superior RFS technology, industry know-how and experience that underpin our capabilities in these areas."

Central to RFS's exhibit at Convergence India 2006 will be its range of RF conditioning products. Tailored to address the co-location interference challenges facing operators the world over, its comprehensive selection of bandpass filters are designed to minimize interference and dropped calls that can occur as a result of base station co-location. This is particularly important in co-located code division multiple access (CDMA) 800 MHz and global system for mobile communications (GSM) 900 MHz sites, plus emerging CDMA 1900 MHz and universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) 2100 MHz co-location scenarios.

The company will also exhibit its comprehensive range of dual and multi-band cellular antenna family--part of RFS's world-renowned Optimizer suite of premium performance cellular antennas. Available in dual-band and side-by-side formats, the Optimizer multi-band antennas permit new services to be added with a simple antenna replacement.

The Optimizer dual-band and side-by-side antennas exhibit the superior performance of the RFS Optimizer cellular antenna family--including side lobe suppression typically better than 20 dB across the entire tilt and frequency range, significantly increased gain, a uniquely-wide 0 to 10 degrees of continuously-adjustable variable electrical tilt, improved front-to-back ratio (typically around 30 dB), and compatibility with RFS's remote tilt technology, the Optimizer RT.

RFS will also exhibit its range of tower mounted boosters (TMB), which provide the necessary downlink amplification required to ensure cost-efficient coverage of low population density areas. Designed to be located at the tower top and close to the antenna, the RFS TMB family provides operators the best combination of base transmitter station up-link sensitivity and down-link power.

Contact:
Radio Frequency Systems
www.rfsworld.com