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Not everyone can design solutions or even produce equipment that supports this size of application and so this should be an indicator when selecting the company you decide to purchase from.
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For buildings in excess of 20,000 sq ft. we typically request a floor plan to ensure the number of antennas needed to effectively distribute the signal throughout your area is accounted for. At JDTECK, we rate our repeaters by the overall volume of area you need to cover. This will then determine the output power needed to effectively cover this size area. Your input signal is a variable, which will influence the output power of your system. Therefore by the use of directional donor antennas and pre-amplifiers, we can augment the inputs going into the repeater to ensure the output is as stable as possible for all the carriers needing to be supported in a wideband setting. After this is established, we then need to determine how to effectively and efficiently distribute that power.
Think of your building as a large field that needs irrigation. The water (source signal) is supplied by the carrier and is brought to your property. The cellular repeater is the "pump" needed to supply the needed pressure to distribute the water throughout your field (building). To do so however, we need to design a good sprinkler system (Distributed Antenna Grid) that will evenly distribute the water and at a pressure that will provide the needed irrigation but, at the same time, will not damage the landscape.
In order to accomplish this, you need all your sprinkler heads (Indoor antennas) in the right places and they all need to be putting out the right amount of pressure (signal strength) and spray pattern (various styles of antennas) for the desired area of coverage. So, the sprinkler head (service antenna) nearest to the main feed (cellular repeater) needs to have just the right amount of pressure, as does the head furthest away from the main feed. This is where a well designed distributed antenna grid which calculates the entire flow path (link budget) comes into place.
It is for this reason that you will not see our system designs with an under budgeted amount of service antennas with the hopes of just blasting a signal throughout the building using a high powered repeater (pump). That's like taking a fire hose to water your plants. It will certainly not be an energy-efficient way of getting the job done, besides affecting transfer rate speeds and increasing the noise floor of the local network beyond necessity.
Like sprinkler heads, antennas are a nominal cost to the overall system and since the power has already been allocated by the appropriate repeater selected for the size area you need to cover, it would be prudent to get the most out of your system by deploying just the right number of antennas to ensure even power distribution.
By the use of signal splitters and directional couplers and by properly understanding the port / power distribution of these various components, you will understand how and when to deploy them in your distribution grid.
At JDTECK, we first complete an informal design of your system layout (drawn by hand) which is used internally to provide you with a quote. If the quote is accepted and the system is ordered, a formal system design layout will be included in the shipment.
We now invite you to contact us with your cellular coverage needs. A full turn-key solution may be more affordable than you think.
