The advantages of using cable TV distribution plant for linking PCS-microcells

It has been suggested by a number of organizations that existing cable television distribution plant be used to interconnect microcell equipment. Taking advantage of the broadband and near ubiquitous nature of cable plant, it has been further proposed that the microcell equipment consist of RF repea...

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Published in1992 IEEE International Conference on Selected Topics in Wireless Communications pp. 292 - 295
Main Author Beasley, A.S.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 1992
Subjects
Cable TV
Communication cables
Costs
Joining processes
Microcell networks
Power cables
Radio frequency
Repeaters
Telecommunication traffic
Testing
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Summary:It has been suggested by a number of organizations that existing cable television distribution plant be used to interconnect microcell equipment. Taking advantage of the broadband and near ubiquitous nature of cable plant, it has been further proposed that the microcell equipment consist of RF repeaters that simply translate off-air mobile voice traffic onto the cable plant and vice versa. This approach uses the cable plant as a RF combining/splitting network since it preserves the basic RF amplitude and phase information. What has become apparent in tests is that this approach to PCS-microcells yields a both low capital costs and improved user service.< >
ISBN:9780780307230
0780307232
DOI:10.1109/ICWC.1992.200767