Telecom equipment vendor TE Connectivity has launched the FlexWave Active Integration Panel (AIP) that ensures multi-carrier, multi-protocol connectivity between mobile operator base stations (BTS) and distributed antenna systems (DAS).
The FlexWave AIP slashes deployment time and costs, improves system configuration flexibility, and enables remote monitoring and control of base station power coming into a DAS, said TE Connectivity in a statement.
Many BTS-to-DAS interface solutions are designed with a variety of multiple passive products filling up multiple racks of equipment in telecom rooms. There is extensive cabling connecting these products making adds and changes to the system difficult.
Using a variety of components can also introduce RF performance passive intermodulation (PIM) issues, because the components are usually sourced from multiple vendors, and may not be designed to work together. The FlexWave AIP solves these issues by providing a simple, compact, low PIM interface that enables BTS signal splitting and combining, automatic power leveling, and remote and local monitoring and control.
The FlexWave AIP is a rack-mountable unit that supports up to eight BTS TX/RX inputs. It is ideal for connecting multiple BTS in a multi-operator or neutral host application. The FlexWave AIP handles BTS power levels up to 100 Watts.
AIP is compatible with DAS products from TE Connectivity. It can also be used with other vendors’ DAS offerings. The FlexWave DAS is the industry’s most robust, flexible, and cost-effective family of DAS solutions.
The FlexWave digital DASsolutions provide indoor and outdoor mobile wireless coverage and capacity for urban areas, suburban areas, large public venues, campuses, transit systems and office buildings. AIP will allow small cell networks in any of these areas to be designed, installed and managed more efficiently.
“FlexWave AIP takes the guesswork, complexity, and cost out of integrating multiple BTS in a DAS deployment,” said Tony Lefebvre, director of product management of TE’s Wireless business unit. “With this new addition to the FlexWave family, we continue to simplify DAS deployment, delivering remotely-monitored control of BTS power levels in a compact system.”
