[32671] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Operations: where are you going to sit?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Wed Dec 6 14:19:14 2000
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Daniel Senie' <dts@senie.com>,
Jade Deane <jade.deane@HelloNetwork.com>
Cc: 'Matt Thoene' <matt@thoene.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 11:06:20 -0800
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Can you provide links for providers of this? We have exactly this problem.
We're in a fringe zone of SprintPCS (East Livermore, CA) and none of our
c-phones work inside the building. SprintPCS was supposed to do a buildout
this way, this year, but it isn't happening.
> From: Daniel Senie [mailto:dts@senie.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 10:27 AM
>
> Jade Deane wrote:
> >
> > Loss of signal in a data center is a good point. At a
> previous organization
> > I was slaved to, we brought this up with Nextel sales
> people. After about a
> > week or so they purposed a small in-line receiver for the
> various data
> > centers, and a thin Kate Moss looking yagi for each roof.
>
> Actually, this should be a passive device. Various types of slotted
> waveguide/coax are made, for example in the Heliax product line. An
> antenna on the roof (directional antenna only if you're on
> the edge of a
> coverage area) and a slotted line through your facility will provide
> good results. Think about it for all commonly used
> frequencies (cellular
> and pager) that might be in use in your facility. This isn't something
> you have to get via your wireless vendor, and it doesn't need
> electronics.
>
> Hospitals have used such setups for years to permit doctor's pagers to
> function throughout buildings (even in basements).
