Argus Technologies Multi-Beam Antenna Solution

October 2013
Introduction

• Multi-beam antennas design basics

• Multi-beam solution advantages
• Capacity planning
• Simulcast
• Argus Technologies multi-beam antenna models
• Examples
– Outdoor special event
– Open/Uncovered Stadium
– Indoor special event
– Car race track
– Macro cell split
– Covered Stadium
• Question and answer

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Multi-Beam Antenna Design

•Argus Technologies Multi-Beam Antennas

are based on two technologies:
– 1) Planar Phased Array
– 2) Butler Matrix

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Planar Phased Array

• Built with columns and rows of radiating elements:

– Number of rows will determine vertical beam width
– Number of columns will determine horizontal beam width

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Butler Matrix

• A 6x6 Butler Matrix is used in the Argus 5 beam antenna design:

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Multi-Beam Antenna Advantage

• Equivalent to several narrow beam

antennas in one enclosure
COW
– Less mounting space required
– Faster installation
– No sector alignment required COLT
– Allows for simulcasting beams with
less capacity demand
• High performance patterns
– Narrow beams
– Rapid roll off for good soft hand off
performance
– High gain
• Perfect solution for COWs, COLTs, COW and COLT Deployment
and temporary installations

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Capacity Planning

• Wireless network capacity is based on:

– Air interface capacity i.e. sub-carrier channelization
– Spectrum
– Reuse i.e. sectorization
• Sector carrier is very good metric for planning capacity, for example:
– 100,000 people to serve (large stadium or outdoor event)
– 2,000 people per carrier (operator determined)
– 2 carriers per sector
– Then:

100,000÷2,000 = 50 sector carriers required

50÷2 = 25 sectors required

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Multi-Beam Antenna Sector Support

2 Sector 5 Sector 9 Sector 18 Sector

(up to 6 sectors (up to 15 sectors (up to 27 sectors (up to 54 sectors
per site) per site) per site) per site)

2UNPX203.6R2 5UPX0805F 2x9NPA2010F 2x9NPA2010F

2UNPX206.12R2 5NPX1006F
2CPX208R-V1 2x9NPA2010F
2NPX210R-V1
5UPX0805F
5NPX1006F
2x9NPA2010F

Key is to simulcast beams to reduce sector count

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Simulcast

• Simulcast is effective in:

– Load balancing
– Reducing resources after peak event when all beams are sectors
– Provide wide coverage with and high capacity in direction of hot spot

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 Argus Technologies Multi-Beam Products

• Dual beam:
– 2UNPX203.6R2 (shown above)
– 2UNPX206.12R2
– 2NPX210R-V1
– 2CPX208R-V1
• Five beam:
– 5UPX0805F
– 5NPX1006F
• 2x9 beam, high band:
– 2x9NPA2010F

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 2x9 Beam Pattern View

Optimized sector alignment for homogenous coverage

View from behind antenna looking outward:

9.4°

8°

~90°

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 Multi-Beam Uses

• Macro cell split

• Outdoor special event
• Indoor special event
• Car race track
• Football stadium inside placement
• Football stadium outside placement
• Arena
• Festivals
• DAS upgrade at football stadium

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Music Festival at Coachella

57GB/Hour 2013 event!

38GB/hr UMTS, 19GB/hr LTE
Forecast 100GB/hr 2014 event!
Left mast has 2x9 at top, and 5-
beam below.
The next mast has two 5-beams.
Three cows hold all the radios.

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Football stadium with no cover

• Application
– Dual band coverage in
USA football stadium
– COWs at each end
– Single feedline per beam
to reduce cabling
• Results
– Couple beams not used
due to reflections
– Optimized similar to
macro sites
– Performance exceeded
market average for key
statistics

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Indoor special events

• Application
– Closed in large
rooms/halls
– Quasi omni DAS nodes
overloading/noising up
– Line of sight and non line
of sight service
• Results
– High and low band 5
beam antennas deployed
– Provided dominant
serving signal away from
macro system
– For capacity, 5 beam
performance significantly
exceeded DAS, >100%

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Atlanta Motor Speedway (124,000 seats)

Beam 1 Beam 2
Beam 3
Beam 4

Beam 5

Beam 6

Beam 7

Beam 8

Beam 9

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Macro Cell Split

• Application
– Dense area of hotels and
theme parks
– 6 sector cell sites not enough
capacity offered
– Coverage area predominantly
foot and low speed vehicular
traffic
• Results
– High and low band 5 beam
antennas deployed multiple
locations
– Optimization approach same
as macro cell
– Performance exceeds market
average for key statistics

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Estadio Nacional (Lima)

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Conclusion

• Multi-beam antennas offer best

capacity solution for large open
areas, inside and outside, when
extreme peak capacity handling
essential and limited on antenna
locations.
• Multi-beam macro site sector
splits work well.
• Multi-beam solutions are easy to
deploy with COWs and COLTs
• Multi-beam option offers very
good upgrade path for overloading
existing solutions.
• CommScope best option for multi-
beam solutions!

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 Thank You

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