User's Manual
Single and multiple floor deployment 79
Checking for through-the-floor coverage
The first step in covering a multi-floor building is assessing the availability
of through-the-floor coverage. In buildings mainly constructed of wood,
through-the-floor coverage can be used. However, due to the construction
of most modern buildings with raised floors, high metal content, and
reinforced concrete, through-the-floor coverage with DECT is limited.
Procedure 17
Checking for through-the-floor coverage
Step Action
1 Place the deployment tool in a middle floor of the site.
2 Go to the floor above the deployment tool and establish a link
with the deployment handset.
Follow the steps in Procedure 10 “Testing the deployment tool
handset” (page 60).
3 Measure the deployment contour as if the basestation was on
this floor, instead of the floor below.
If only a small area is covered (less than 10 metres radius), there
is effectively no through-the-floor coverage on the floor above
an installed basestation.
4 Go to the floor below the deployment tool and repeat the
preceding process.
If the area that can be covered is small, there is no
through-the-floor coverage below a basestation location.
5 If there is no through-the-floor coverage or coverage is restricted
to a small area.
Deploy each floor using critical points, or if the floors are exactly
similar, deploy as multi floors with the same layout.
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Assess floor layout
The deployment procedure changes according to the similarities and
differences of the floors.
All floors have the same layout To begin a multi-floor deployment if all
of the floors have the same layout, deploy one floor and enter the data
on the floor plan. Use the data from the deployed floor for other identical
floors.
Nortel Communication Server 1000
SIP DECT Fundamentals
NN43120-123 01.07
6 January 2009
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