DALLAS-Samsung Telecommunications America introduced a new compact Code Division Multiple Access base station designed to drastically reduce initial deployment and recurring network costs.
Samsung said the PicoBTS base station provides cellular and personal communications services carriers with a small and high capacity platform allowing for maximum deployment flexibility. Carriers can install the product in nontraditional areas like sides of buildings, telephone and utility poles and tunnels and bridges.
Additionally, the product provides space efficiency with macro cell coverage at reduced operating cost-about one-fifth of standard base station operating costs, said David Allen, director of marketing, STA Wireless Systems division.
“With our new PicoBTS, we are responding to the needs of carriers with a compact product that is flexible in designing mobile networks and offers reduced operational and deployment costs,” said Allen.
Samsung’s PicoBTS features a fully redundant pico main unit to house controllers, a Global Positioning System receiver and CDMA channel elements as well as a remote radio unit, which contains the diversity radio transceivers and power amplifiers. The remote unit radiates a standard five watts of output power and can be positioned up to 150 feet away from the main unit, placing the power at the antenna and eliminating radio-frequency cable loss, said the company.
The PicoBTS is the first product to accommodate omni, two sector and three sector configurations. Its platform allows operators to expand into these configurations by adding a remote radio unit. The modular design requires no field maintenance for operators, said Samsung.
Samsung will showcase the product at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s Wireless ’98 show scheduled in February in Atlanta.
