Posted on Friday, May 30th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
In-building wireless takes off
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Growth in the deployment of in-building wireless systems has accelerated to nearly 26 per cent, and more than 500,000 buildings will use such a system by 2013, according to new research.
The systems provide indoor cellular coverage and capacity when the macro network cannot effectively penetrate buildings.
ABI Research said that the systems fall into four broad categories: passive distributed antenna, active distributed antenna, distributed repeater and distributed radio.
Dan Shey, principal analyst at ABI, said: “Buildings are the last great frontier for cellular coverage for vast portions of the population.
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