[56627] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT: Increasing Cell Phone Signal inside a NOC?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley Dunn)
Tue Mar 11 13:21:28 2003
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:17:41 -0800
From: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>
To: Spencer.Wood@dot.state.oh.us
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Spencer.Wood@dot.state.oh.us wrote:
>
> I'm sure a lot of people have the same problem as we are having... Our
> NOC and Server Equipment is located in "No Cell Phone signal" zone of
> our building (It's amazing what metal walls, Server Racks and HVAC
> Systems will do to Cellphone Signals). I was wondering if anyone out
> there has found a device that will be able to repeat the Cell Phone
> signal back into our NOC & Server Area's???
You'd probably need a lot of indoor usage to convince your carrier to do
it, but you could ask them to deploy a picocell in your space. For example:
http://www.nokia.com/networks/product_catalog/pc_product_highlights/1,5567,,00.html?prod_id=RAS00010&path=mcat&mcat=44445&scat=48260
Again, you'd need your cell carrier's cooperation for this.
Bradley
