User Manual

MN024-08

1.1 The Features

Britecell Plus is an innovative platform designed in order to provide an

effective and flexible coverage to a large variety of indoor scenarios.

Thanks to its high modularity, its low power consumption, and its full-

transparency to protocols and modulation formats, Britecell Plus is the perfect

plug&play solution to distribute any wireless standard (including GSM, GPRS,

EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA, and WLAN IEEE 802.11b) to the in-building

environments requiring reliable and interference-free communications, as well

as high traffic capacity and maximum flexibility about future expansions.

These unique features make the Britecell Plus platform suitable also for

applications to critical areas experiencing difficulties in establishing and

keeping phone calls, while its compact design always guarantees a minimum

aesthetic impact.

1.2 Brief Description of Britecell Plus

Britecell Plus is a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) based on the Radio-over-

Fibre (RoF) technology, and capable of carrying wireless mobile signals

through the 800MHz - 2500MHz frequency range regardless of their protocol

and their modulation format.

The system has two basic components, a Master Unit and a Remote Unit. The

Master Unit is made of one or more subracks typically connected to the BTS

(Base Tranceiver Station) through either a repeater (RF interface) or a coaxial

cable.

Each Remote Unit is connected with a dedicated pair of single-mode optical

fibres (one for UL and one for DL) to the Master Unit. These optical fibres work

on 1310 nm wavelenght and provide low losses and almost unlimited

bandwidth, available for future system developments.

Britecell Plus is a modular system whose basic components are:

• one Master Unit made of one or more subracks, each providing 12

module slots. Each slot can host either an active or a RF passive device

(chosen among the wide range of Britecell Plus options), in order to

meet the planned design requirements;

• a variable number of Remote Units (TFAx), whose function is feeding

the antenna passive network;

• a proper number of indoor antennas, suitable to provide radio coverage

to the area. Britecell Plus is fully compatible with any type of indoor

antennas;

• the optical cables required to connect the 19” subracks to the TFAx.