Provide In-Building Wireless to Wide Areas with CommScope Era™

Delivering wireless connectivity and capacity indoors has always been a challenge. Employees, customers and visitors manage to find those infamous dead spots where the outdoor macro networks can't reach. Dropped calls and slow, unreliable data connections are no longer acceptable, and you need to enable the coverage and capacity that your facilities require. 

An in-building wireless (IBW) solution, such as a traditional analog distributed antenna system (DAS), is an effective solution for a commercial building. But what do you do when you need to provide wireless coverage to an entire campus or office park? 

CommScope Era™ is the first C-RAN antenna system. It's built on C-RAN architecture that consolidates and simplifies distributed antenna system head-end resources and flexibly allocates capacity where and when it's needed across the covered area through a simple drag-and-drop software interface. 

Cloud and centralized radio access networks (C-RAN) represent a shift in the way operators are managing wireless capacity. CommScope's Era C-RAN antenna system employs a network of interconnected antennas that provide users access to the wireless network. Unlike traditional DAS solutions, however, CommScope's C-RAN antenna system coordinates wireless capacity throughout a campus, office park or even a metro area from a centralized head-end location or even from operators' existing C-RAN hubs.

Era offers superior flexibility, simplicity and economy. Here's how: 

• Baseband functions can be moved to the cloud
• All-digital fronthaul transport reduces fiber strands to the buildings and allows sharing of an existing fiber network with other services
• Capacity can be dynamically shared across many buildings
• Each building no longer requires its own dedicated head-end
• The consolidated head-end requires less equipment
• Access points offer a wide variety of customization options 

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