Deploying Indoor Coverage at Orange HQ
LGC Wireless has announced that Orange France has deployed its InterReach Unison in-building cellular systems to provide 3G and GSM coverage inside the new Orange headquarters campus in Paris. The new facility includes three, 8-story buildings that total over 46,000 square meters in all. Its architecture includes the use of aluminum building panels, which make it difficult or impossible for workers inside the building to receive adequate cellular coverage from external macro cells.
To provide pervasive in-building GSM and UMTS coverage, system integrator First Line Telecom deployed 150 ceiling-mounted antennas, which are driven by active electronic hubs via standard building cabling.
"As a leading telecommunications company in Europe and the UK, we wanted our new French headquarters to be a showcase of architectural design as well as advanced communications technology," said Emmanuel Gaultier of Orange France. "The Unison system's outstanding performance and ease of deployment made LGC Wireless a natural choice for our in-building wireless infrastructure."
The Unison system's active electronics deliver wireless signals from a micro base station through Main Hubs in the campus communications center, and from there via fiber to Expansion Hubs in each building, which are linked via standard Cat-6 cabling to the remote antennas. Thanks to the use of standard cabling, deployment costs and time were kept to a minimum."
Posted to the site on 18th December 2006
