User's Manual

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Deploying on multiple ﬂoors

Use the information in this section to deploy SIP DECT in the following

situations.

• The coverage area is on more than one floor.

• The floors are not adjacent.

Checking for through-the-floor coverage

The first step in covering a multi-floor building is to assess the availability

of through-the-floor coverage. In buildings mainly constructed of wood,

you can use through-the-floor coverage. 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 15

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 enter the site

survey mode on the handset.

For more information, see Procedure 1 “Entering the site survey

mode” (page 41) if you use Deployment Kit 2, or Procedure

149 “Entering the monitor mode” (page 270) if you use an older

Deployment tool.

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 a 10 metre radius), no

through-the-floor coverage is available on the floor above an

installed basestation.

4 Go to the floor below the deployment tool and repeat the

preceding process.

If only a small area is covered (less than a 10 metre radius), no

through-the-floor coverage is available on the floor below an

installed basestation.

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 have similar floor plans, you can use the same deployment

plan on each floor.

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