AXELL WIRELESS
Overview and Product Portfolio Prepared for September 12, 2013
Agenda
Brief Overview of Axell Wireless Public Safety Fiber Fed Solution Public Safety Off-Air Products Commercial Off-Air Products Commercial Fiber Fed Solution
Who is Axell Wireless? Global developer and manufacturer of DAS and wireless coverage products 250 employees in 14 offices worldwide, including Operations centers in Stockholm, London and Tel Aviv Focused on Public Safety, Cellular and Rail applications 40 years of experience in providing wireless coverage solutions Reputation for high quality and innovative technology Expertise in DSP technology Globally deployed in over 140 countries by more than 150 network operators Specialist in multi band technology - FM to 4G
Axell Wireless Customer 6 Million Sq. Ft.
Public Safety Market Leader DAS & Coverage Products for: FM, VHF, UHF, 700/800/900 MHz, P25, Tetra, Tetrapol, PMR and LTE The Pentagon
German Bundestag
The Peoples Palace - Romania
` Burj Khalifa
Beijing Metro
Dulles Airport
Cellular Innovation DAS and coverage products for all major cellular bands and technologies, including: GSM, DCS, PCS, CDMA, WCDMA, UMTS, EDGE, and LTE Olympic Stadium
Fairmont Hotel, Durban
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Shangri-La Hotel - Paris
Lainzer Tunnel, Austria
Hong Kong Metro The Shard
In Building Case Studies Heathrow Terminal 5 Multiband in building System providing coverage across the terminal 5 campus. Includes VHF systems for baggage handling and security, Tetra for public safety and 2G and 3G cellular coverage for all UK operators. Pentagon A dual band fibre system for public safety and security in the Pentagon. All the remote sites provide UHF and 800MHz coverage with redundancy. The RF head-end also provided some unique functionality to reduce noise to the external area. Burj Khalifa Tower Fibre distribution system for Tetra coverage across key areas within the tower in addition to providing coverage inside Dubai Mall connected to the Burj. Fully redundant system offering un-interrupted Tetra services for the public safety authorities.
Campus & Stadium Case Studies
Olympic Park London Multiband cellular system providing coverage across the park. Includes 2G and 3G cellular coverage for all UK operators in all the main venues. Male – Maldives Capital BTS hotel in Male providing 2G and 3G coverage at street level, in the narrow streets of the city. The stand alone base station concept was not viable in this densely populated city. Multi band fibre fed repeaters were deployed at street level to provide comprehensive coverage. Stade de France Multiband VHF and UHF providing radio coverage of the pitch, spectators, VIP areas, the internal road and team changing rooms for the Fire, Ambulance, Police and Gendarmerie services. The original system was supplied in 1997 with an upgrade to the Police’s TETRAPOL system in 2010.
Leading Innovator In Wireless Coverage The broadest and most advanced offering in the market Track Record Of Industry “Firsts” 1st commercial RF repeater
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1st EDGE repeater 1st TETRA repeater 1st GSM-R repeater project
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Digital Channel Selective repeater
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1st digital TETRA repeater 1st digital range of Cellular MINI repeaters
Axell is 1 of only 2 vendors worldwide with patents on digital repeaters
Technology Highlights & Client Benefits Public Safety and Cellular solutions: most complete portfolio for in-building coverage Complete DAS systems and cost effective Off-Air repeaters: unmatched breadth of offering Multi-band: flexibility to align with available spectrum Multi-operator: adapt to business requirements, minimize interference SDR: reconfiguration via software upgrades, reduce hardware swaps Low-power and high-power solutions: solutions for any environment Flexible management platform: efficient and secure remote network management
Axell boasts the most complete and most flexible product portfolio, substantially lowering TCO
Why Axell Wireless? “One stop shop”
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Fiber DAS and off-air BDAs (head-end) Public safety and commercial
Axell does not do integration…partners with Integrators
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Allows Axell to focus on developing the best products Enable integration partner to grow its business with Axell support
Patented Digital Filtering
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Variable Bandwidth filters that can be changed remotely without physical hardware changes Re-banding with no physical HW changes Lower noise
Advanced Systems
• Auto-calibration (Smart ALC) / Spectral Equalization • IMOP (Isolation Monitoring Oscillation Prevention) • Alarm Systems with Discrete fault monitoring • Uplink Squelch – reduce impact on macro system Axell is offering Digital, Channelized, State-of-the-Art solutions at the prices of band selective devices
PUBLIC SAFETY FIBER DAS
Examples of Major USA Fiber Fed Projects New World Trade Center Complex Dept. of Homeland Security Campus Mark Center Pentagon Portland Trimet MWAA – Dulles Airport Social Security Admin. Campus
Baltimore Metro Baltimore Harbor Tunnels Pittsburgh LRT SEPTA Seattle Sound Lincoln & Holland Tunnels Meadowlands
The Axell Wireless Portfolio for Public Safety Fiber Fed
Bands
Low Power
Medium Power
High Power
typ. 33 dBm
typ. >36dBm
typ. 20dBm
FM, VHF, UHF, TETRA
BSF 3302 (VHF)
BSF 3301 (FM)
BSF 3604 (UHF/Tetra)
One common platform
700 / 800 MHz LMR One common platform
MBF26 700/800 - NFPA
MBF40 700/800 NFPA
Axell Coverage Systems POIs and Customized Systems
Example: Fiber DAS Diagram Donor Antenna
Service Antennas
Remote Unit
Coax
Public Safety Amplifier Wireless Base Station Fiber OMU – Head End
Fiber Bi-Directional Optics Amplifier
Combined Commercial & Public Safety Services on Same DAS
This example shows a scenario of 3 channels that are occupied, channel1 is not used
INPUT LEVEL
Automatic Level Control Action Mitigates Near Far Effect
Channels 2,3 and 4 are used by mobiles at varying distances from the repeater antenna, giving varying input signal levels
The output power level is almost constant for all three channels to allow homogenous coverage Mitigates impact of Near Far Effect by reducing gain on that channel if someone keys up near the antenna.
CH 2
CH 3
CH 4
GAIN
CH 1
CH 1
CH 2
CH 3
CH 4
CH 1
CH 2
CH 3
CH 4
OUTPUT LEVEL
The digital repeater gain is very quickly adjusted to the correct gain for each channel input to give the output level controlled by the ALC setting
SQUELCH THRESHOLD
SQUELCH THRESHOLD
CH 2
CH 3
CH 4
GAIN
CH 1
CH 1
CH 2
CH 3
CH 4
CH 1
CH 2
CH 3
CH 4
OUTPUT LEVEL
Channel 1 is not used so that is generating only noise in the repeater during this time. The noise level is below the squelch threshold of the digital repeater. The squelch function of the repeater mutes the repeater for the unused channel, reducing the gain to literally zero. With very low gain in the repeater for Channel 1, the repeater is not emitting any noise towards the base station. The BTS sensitivity is not degraded for any call on CH1 coming from another area.
INPUT LEVEL
Uplink Squelch Function Reduces Noise on Macro Network
Fiber Repeater 148 - 174 MHz 33 dBm composite Filter Pass BW: 1-2 MHz with options to 5 MHz Noise Figure: