Handbook

ClearFill Star CDMA
1100187 Rev. 1.0
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Table of Contents
Table of Figures 7
Table of Charts 9
1 Introduction 10
1.1 General 10
1.2 Conventions in this Manual 12
1.3 Standards Conformance 12
1.4 Firmware Release 12
2 ClearFill®Star System Description 13
2.1 General description 13
2.1.1 Supported Services 15
2.1.2 Identification of System 15
2.1.3 System Structure (deployment architectures) 16
2.2 Unit description 18
2.2.1 Base Station Interface (BSI) 18
2.2.2 Remote Radio Head (RRH) 19
2.2.3 Gigabit Ethernet Switch (GES) 19
2.2.4 Supported Ethernet Standards 19
2.3 Features 20
2.3.1 General Features 20
2.3.2 Sectorization 21
2.3.3 Guided Hard Handover (Pilot Beacon Functionality) 22
3 System Design Guidelines 23
3.1 CDMA Basics (in preparation) 23
3.1.1 Data (in preparation) 23
3.1.2 Voice (in preparation) 23
3.2 Required information for system design 23
3.2.1 Power level 23
3.2.2 Coverage area / Architecture drawings 24
3.2.3 Type of Building 28
3.2.4 Number of Users 29
3.2.5 Typical parameters 30
3.3 Design step by step 30
3.3.1 Determine coverage area per RRH 30
3.3.2 Number of RRH for Coverage 3G1x and EV-DO 30
3.3.3 Number of RRH for beacon 32
3.3.4 Number of BSI 32
3.3.5 Number of GES 34
3.4 Estimated RF Coverage per RRH 41
3.4.1 Propagation Model (Free Space Loss) 41
3.4.2 Power Level Estimation (Link Budget) 44
3.4.3 Link Loss (Coverage distance) 48
3.4.4 Only one direct connected antenna (in preparation) 48
3.4.5 Examples of Coverage Estimates (in preparation) 48
3.5 Right-sizing - the beacon feature (in preparation) 48
3.6 Capacity demand - number for BSIs (in preparation) 48
3.7 System Architecture 49