iBwave Design Tutorial Basic

20-Feb-2018

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Introduction
▪ iBwave Design is the industry's leading software, used to automate in-building
network design planning activities. It helps to eliminate the extra work by
generating documentation of required files and tasks, increasing the accuracy and
productivity in indoor wireless projects.
▪ It is a useful software tool available for network design planning. Streamline the
process of data collection, component selection, cost evaluation, design, validation,
documentation, reporting and more.
▪ Currently, we use iBwave Software for our IBS Design planning through its Design
Plan, Layout Floor Plan, Horizontal Link Budget Report, Equipment List Report,
Propagation Module and Optimization Module to generate output maps.

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Agenda
This presentation covers:
1 Start a New Project from Scratch
▪ Define Project Properties

2 Create Design Plan

▪ Setup Design Plan Page View
▪ Create Schematic Diagram Design

3 Create Layout Plan

▪ Setup Layout Floor Plan Page View
▪ Load Floor Maps and Perform Configuration
▪ Set Reference Plan

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This presentation covers:
4 In-building DAS Design and Simulation
▪ Antennas Placement
▪ Cables Routing and Replacement
▪ Splitters/Couplers Balancing
▪ Output Map Configuration
▪ Draw Prediction Area
▪ Run Simulation for LTE, WCDMA/UMTS & GSM systems
5 Reports
▪ Horizontal Link Budget Report
▪ Equipment List Report
▪ Simulation Report
6 Questionnaires on Design Requirement
▪ Information needed for iBwave Design
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Start New Project

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Design Overview
iBwave Design Process Flow
Design Requirements: iBwave Design Stage 1: iBwave Design Stage 2:
• Design KPI. • Link Budget Calculation. • Schematic Design.
• No. of operators. • Antenna radius. • BTS and power
• No. of Frequency Bands. • Antenna EiRP. configuration.
• No. of carriers. • Component VEX files • Layout Design.
• Floor maps. creation. • Load floor maps.
• Scale of floor map. • Antennas placement.
• Height of every floor.
• Active or passive solutions. 1) Increase
antennas.
Input 2) Improve EiRP.
etc.

iBwave Design Process iBwave Design Stage 3:

• Output Maps Simulation.
Stage 1 to 4

Output
Documentation: iBwave Design Stage 4: Yes No
• Equipment List Report. Does
• Business Proposals.
• Horizontal Link Budget design
Report. meets the
• Convert Output Maps KPI ?
Simulation to PDF.

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Start a New Project
Launch iBwave Design, under Home tab, select/click New Project

Modify New Project Properties to suit project specifications

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Start a New Project
Select Project, General
▪ Enter Project Name
▪ Select Date
▪ Enter the rest of the information if needed.

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Start a New Project
Select Preferences, General
▪ Select the different types of font, size and color.
▪ Under System display mode, select Grouped by wireless service (default).

Legacy Grouped by
wireless service

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Start a New Project
Select Preferences, Company info.
▪ Enter Designer Name
▪ Enter Company Info
▪ Add Company Logo

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Start a New Project
Select Preferences, Units
▪ Click All metric for General settings such as Dimensions, Weights etc.
▪ Change RF Antenna gain to dBi (with respect to an isotropic source)

Change from dBd to dBi

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Start a New Project
Select Preferences, Part ID, ID
▪ Select Auto-generate IDs for all parts (normally for New Design)
▪ Numbering is always sequential
▪ Deleting a part will re-label all the parts.

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Start a New Project
Select Preferences, Part ID, Numbering (#)
▪ Set Starting number to 1
▪ If <check box reset on each layout plan is selected, then layout floor plan code
or building code is used>, the component count will start from 1 for each new
layout instead of continuing the next higher number from previous layout.

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Start a New Project
Select Preferences, Part ID, Numbering (#)
▪ Select Generate IDs for new parts only (for existing projects where modification is
needed)
▪ Allows manual labelling such as Continue from the highest number (For example,
there are 3 Antennas with the following labels: A1, A2 and A5 where A3 to A4 are
deleted, when adding a new Antenna, “A6” is used.)
▪ Use next available number will use “A3” instead
▪ Deleting a part will not re-label all the parts

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Start a New Project
Select Preferences, Part ID, Template editor
▪ Select Auto-generate IDs for all parts.
▪ Allows customization of ID display.
▪ Enter the new value and select the add button.

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Start a New Project
Select Preferences, Part ID, ID
▪ To display customized Antenna ID, change the ID value from ANT to A.
▪ Tick Visible to allow ID display on both Design & Layout Plans.
▪ Under Template, scroll down to the new value added \LPNAME\-\ID# and click the
OK button.

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Start a New Project
Select Preferences, Part ID, Subcategories
▪ Allows customization of ID display of components inside subcategories.
▪ Enter the ID abbreviation according to your preference.

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Start a New Project
Select Preferences, Layers
▪ Select Multiple layers (allows superpose items by type. For example,
▪ All components can be considered as “parts”. Therefore, the Parts layer should be placed
on top of the Text Boxes layer if you want to display an antenna over a text box.
▪ “Bring to Front/Send to Back” and “ Move Up One Level/Down One Level” options can only
be applied to the same type of items.)

On/Off views
& Lock parts.

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Start a New Project
Select Calculations, General, Composite Output Power
▪ Select Combined Per channel ▪ Composite output power: Select one
of the following options.

- Per band:
Full composite power for all
operators.

- Combined: Distributes evenly the

total available composite power
between the operators, regardless of
the number of channels for each of
them. (Output power is equally
shared between system sources of
the same band.)

- Combined per channel:

Distributes the total available
composite power based on the
number of channels used by each
operator.
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Start a New Project
Select Calculations, General
▪ Tick Connectors
▪ Tick Custom calculations
▪ Both connector loss calculations
and connector validations are
enabled. Fiber cables not matching
parts are not allowed to connect and
error messages are issued. For
coaxial cable, similar warnings are
issued.

▪ The Use custom output power

when available check box should be
selected. When available, custom
output power calculations are applied
to fiber components

▪ Adjust cable safety margin % here

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Start a New Project
Select Calculations, CDMA/WCDMA technology
▪ Use default Walsh codes and power levels values.
▪ Select Pilot/CPICH for Antenna contours prediction.

▪ Default Pilot/CPICH is set at 10% of

the total power. (Check for
operator’s requirement)
▪ This configuration panel is also
available when we create the BTS.

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Start a New Project
Select Calculations, HSPA technology
▪ Use default Walsh codes and power levels values.
▪ Select Pilot/CPICH for Antenna contours prediction.

▪ Default Pilot/CPICH is set at 10% of

the total power. (Check for
operator’s requirement)
▪ This configuration panel is also
available when we create the BTS.

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Start a New Project
Select Calculations, LTE technology
▪ Allows users to choose Automatic calculations or Custom values for Tx power
settings configuration.
▪ Default setting is Automatic calculations.

▪ This configuration is also available

when we create the BTS.
▪ The Tx_RE_dlrs Reference signal is
automatically calculated when we
choose Automatic calculations.

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Start a New Project
Select Calculations, Prediction, General
▪ Tick Save and load prediction results
▪ Tick Enable smoothing for prediction
▪ Select All surfaces for Prediction surface
▪ Select Fast Ray Tracing for Layout Prediction Simulation
▪ Tick Waveguiding
▪ Tick Use direct path on inclined surfaces and for radiating cables
▪ The smaller the resolution, the
longer it takes to run the simulation.
▪ 0.7m is the optimum value. the
resolution, the
longer it takes to run the
▪ The default prediction height (PH) is
simulation.
1.5m. It sets the height of the Mobile
Station receiving antenna. This
height is referenced above the floor
level. longer it takes to run the
simulation.

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Design Plan
Select Design plan tab

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Design Plan
Select Modelling tab and click Page Setup
▪ Select Page Setup
▪ Print Setup, select A3 or A4 Paper size, Portrait or Landscape orientation

▪ Perform
right mouse
click on the
Design Plan
to enter
Page Setup
longer it takes
to run the

simulation.
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Design Plan
Page Setup
▪ Select Page Size
▪ Select Pre-defined size, Metric (ISO), A3 or A4 and Portrait or Landscape
orientation same as the Print setup,
▪ Select Multiple pages, Multiple virtual pages
▪ Set current page size as default so that
it applies the same settings each time you
start a new design

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Design Plan
Page Setup
▪ Title border, Title Block, tick Page border
▪ Select Simple Title Block (Legacy)
▪ Tick Company logo
▪ Select Apply to : All pages
▪ Set current
Title Block options as
default so that it applies
the same settings each
time you start a new design

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Link Budget
Link Budget Sample (Passive Design)

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Design Plan
Add Systems to Design Plan based on Link Budget
▪ Select Network Design, Add System, System Wizard panel appears

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Design Plan
Add LTE System to Design Plan based on Link Budget
▪ Enter Operator (optional)
▪ Select Region/Country
▪ Select frequency Band, 2.6 GHz
▪ Select Technology, LTE
▪ Select Block, FDD – 10 MHz – Band 7
▪ Select System sources Type, Generic Signal Source
▪ Select Configuration, SISO
▪ Select Nb. of ch., 1
▪ Click Next button to continue the settings…

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Design Plan
Add LTE System to Design Plan based on Link Budget
▪ Select Tx power/ch. & enter 15.21 ▪ Alternatively, we can choose
▪ Click Next button to continue the settings… Automatic calculations, then
we can enter the Composite
▪ Select Tx power settings configuration: Custom values power as 43 dBm instead of
TX power/ch
▪ Enter Tx_RE_dlrs as 15.21 ▪ Tx_RE_dlrs will be
▪ Click Finish button to complete settings automatically calculated as
15.22 dBm

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Design Plan
Add LTE System to Design Plan based on Link Budget

▪ Enter the power based on Link Budget

calculation.

▪ TX power/ch. affects the Horizontal

Link Budget Report values displayed
under Sys Out Pwr Total and Antenna
EiRP Power (Pwr per Ch.).

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Design Plan
Add LTE System to Design Plan based on Link Budget

▪ Enter the power based on Link Budget

calculation.
▪ Use Reference Signal Power for
Antennas (EiRP) for LTE systems.
▪ Affects LTE simulation results.
▪ Reference signal (RS): This signal is
similar to pilot signal in CDMA technology.
It is always transmitted by LTE eNodeB,
and is used by mobile to rank different
LTE sectors according to signal strength.
▪ Click Finish button when done.

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Design Plan
Add LTE System to Design Plan based on Link Budget
To see the output power from BTS:

▪ Turn on the Reference Signal Power

under Calculations panel.
▪ Turn on Calculations under Layers
panel.

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Design Plan
Add UMTS System to Design Plan based on Link Budget
▪ Select Region/Country
▪ Select frequency Band, 2100 MHz - UMTS
▪ Select Technology, WCDMA
▪ Select Block, WCDMA2100 – block I
▪ Select System sources Type, Generic Signal Source
▪ Select Nb. of ch., 1
▪ Click Next button to continue the settings…

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Design Plan
Add UMTS System to Design Plan based on Link Budget
▪ Select Tx power/ch. & enter 40.00
▪ Click Next button to continue the settings…

TX power/ch. affects the

HorizontalLinkBudget Report
values displayed under
Antenna EiRP Power
(Pwr per Ch.).
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Design Plan
Add UMTS System to Design Plan based on Link Budget
▪ Select Pilot/CPICH
▪ Click Finish button to complete the settings…
▪ Default Pilot/CPICH is set at 10% of the total
power. (Check for operator’s requirement)
▪ Turn on the Pilot power under Calculation
panel.
▪ Output Pilot/CPICH power at BTS is 10dB
lower.

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Design Plan
Add GSM System to Design Plan based on Link Budget
▪ Select Region/Country
▪ Select frequency Band, 900 MHz - GSM
▪ Select Technology, GSM
▪ Select Block, P-GSM900
▪ Select System sources Type, Generic Signal Source
▪ Select Nb. of ch., 1
▪ Click Next button to continue the settings…

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Design Plan
Add GSM System to Design Plan based on Link Budget
▪ Select Tx power/ch. & enter 39.00
▪ Click Finish button to continue the settings…

TX power/ch. affects the

HorizontalLinkBudget Report
values displayed under
Antenna EiRP Power
(Pwr per Ch.).

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Design Plan
Start Schematic Design
▪ Pull out components from Parts Toolbox (v.9.0.0 & above)

Click on Signal Source

Click on Cable

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Design Plan
Schematic Design Sample
▪ Part 1
Dummy POI BTS

To Antennas

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Design Plan
Schematic Design Sample
▪ Part 2 DAS

From BTS / POI

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Layout Plan
Add New Layout Plan
▪ A default Floor 1 floor plan is already available for use after adding New Project.
▪ To add new Floor Plan for other floors, go to Modelling, select New Floor Plan
▪ Under Floor Plan Properties, Add Name & Custom text
▪ Add Image File, click Browse button
▪ Load floor plan image (pdf or dwg AutoCAD files, pdf files are more preferred for
loading due to smaller file size)

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Layout Plan
Load Floor Plan Image
▪ Click Convert button

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Layout Plan
Load Floor Plan Image
▪ Scale, select Config button to perform Scale Configuration
▪ Select horizontal & vertical
▪ Click the Locate vector button

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Layout Plan
Load Floor Plan Image
▪ Align the blue colour vector on the scale at point 6 & 7
▪ Enter Vector’s length as 11.40m which is the same as the drawing’s scale

Blue colour vector

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Layout Plan
Load Floor Plan Image
▪ Need to change the Floor & Components Height if the floor plan is different from
the default values
▪ Select Custom, enter the Floor Height
▪ Select Custom, enter the Components Height

Custom Height
based on floor plan.

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Layout Plan
Load Floor Plan Image
▪ Select the Floor Plan Image
▪ Right mouse click to select Floor Plan Image, Proportional fit to page and
center, right mouse click again on floor plan to Lock size and position.
▪ Load the rest of the floor maps by repeating the same steps (Pg 46 to 51)

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Layout Plan
Load Floor Plan Image
▪ Set the reference point to align all floors.
▪ Reference point must be common to all floors for alignment.
▪ Perform right mouse click on the reference point to lock and unlock its position.

Reference Plan

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Design Plan & Layout Plan
Antennas Placement & Cables Routing

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Layout Plan
Create Radio Transceivers
▪ Select Signal Source, click Other.
▪ Under Manufacturer, select Generic Signal Generator

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Layout Plan
Create Radio Transceivers
▪ Click on the Sources Tab
▪ Under Source 1, Signal, click this button on the right side to change the
system/band

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Layout Plan
Create Radio Transceivers
▪ System Panel appears
▪ Select/Enter Operator information if available
▪ Select Region/Country
▪ Select Band Frequency (select a band such
as 700MHz that is not used in the project to
prevent confusion)
▪ Select Technology e.g. LTE
▪ Select Block
▪ Select Nb. of ch. e.g. 1
▪ Click the OK button

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Layout Plan
Create Radio Transceivers
▪ Source 1 configuration is considered done
▪ Select Source 2 from drop down icon , under Transmitter, Active option, click
False option from the drop down icon to turn off Source 2. Continue this action for
Source 3 to Source 6

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Layout Plan
Create Radio Transceivers
▪ Once click OK button and the Radio Transceiver will appear as RT on the Floor
Plan

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Layout Plan
Create Radio Transceivers
▪ Go to Prediction panel
▪ Under Antenna Contours, tick 700 MHz – LTE to see the antenna contour of
radio transceiver as shown

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Layout Plan
Create Radio Transceivers
▪ Refer to Link Budget on the Antenna Coverage Radius which is 15m in this
example
▪ Under Modelling tab, use the ruler to set a distance of 15m
▪ Noticed that the antenna contour is bigger than the required coverage radius of
15m

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Layout Plan
Create Radio Transceivers
▪ There is the need to adjust the antenna contour to 15m so that we can use this
coverage distance to place the rest of the antennas on the floor map
▪ Go to Home tab, select Properties
▪ Project Properties Panel appears, under Calculations, Mobile signal, 700 MHz,
increase the Expected MS RSSI [dBm] value

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Layout Plan
Create Radio Transceivers
▪ The contour reduced to almost the same as 15m radius when the Expected MS
RSSI [dBm] increased from -85 dBm to -58 dBm

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Layout Plan
Create Radio Transceivers
▪ Alternatively, the contour can also be adjusted by changing the RT Output power
from 0.00 dBm to -1.00 dBm
▪ Double click on the RT to enter into
Part Properties Panel

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Layout Plan
Create Radio Transceivers
▪ Choose the omni antenna required for design and place it at the center of the
Radio Transceiver
▪ Once done, start placing the antennas on the floor maps

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Layout Plan
Antennas Placement
▪ Place the antennas and radio transceivers as shown to cover the corridors, directly
outside lifts, directly outside toilets, hotspot areas, VIP areas and other critical area
depends on requirement.

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Layout Plan
Antennas Placement
▪ Un-tick the Source to turn off the Radio Transceiver under Layers Panel
(Alternatively, can delete the RTs as they are not needed anymore)
▪ Now only antennas can be seen on the floor map
▪ Reduce the Pictograms size from 100% to 50% to fit antennas size onto the floor
map

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Layout Plan
Splitters and Couplers Placement
▪ Select Passive DAS, click Splitter under Parts, Select part panel appears
▪ Select Manufacturer: Rosenberger
▪ Select Model: 2, 3 and 4 ways Splitters

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Layout Plan
Splitters and Couplers Placement
▪ All 2-way, 3-way and 4-way splitters were placed on the floor map depends on
number of antennas to be connected and the antennas placement location

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Layout Plan
Connect Antennas to Splitters
▪ Select Coaxial Cable under Parts and Select cable panel appears
▪ Select Manufacturer: Rosenberger
▪ Select Model: 1/2”, 7/8”, 5/4” and 13/8” Coaxial cables (choose 1/2” coaxial
cables first for all designs)

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Layout Plan
Connect Antennas to Splitters
▪ A pencil cursor appears
▪ Place the pencil cursor on the antenna, the ‘red dot’ connector
appears, click on it to join the cable to the ‘red dot’ on the splitter
▪ Connect the four antennas to the 4-way splitter

Under Layers panel, turn on

Coaxial to view the ½” coaxial
cables

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Layout Plan
Connect Antennas to Splitters
▪ Connect all the antennas to the splitters on the floor map

Antennas

Splitters

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Layout Plan
Connect Antennas to Splitters
▪ Identify the equipment room to identify the power source location
▪ All BTS will be placed inside the Telecommunication Equipment Room (TER)

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Layout Plan
Connect Splitters to Couplers
▪ Select Directional Coupler under Parts and Select part panel appears
▪ Select Manufacturer: Rosenberger
▪ Select Model: 6dB, 8dB, 10dB, 15dB, 20dB, 30dB and 40dB Couplers etc

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Layout Plan
Connect Splitters to Couplers
▪ Place the first coupler near the equipment room
▪ Connect the ‘Tap’ connector from the first coupler to the next splitter or coupler that
is nearer as the loss is higher

Coupler

Tap

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Layout Plan
Connect Splitters to Couplers
▪ Connect the ‘Through’ connector of the first coupler to the next splitter or coupler
that is further away as the loss is lesser

Through

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Layout Plan
Connect Splitters to Couplers
▪ All splitters are now connected to the couplers

Couplers Splitters

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Design Plan
Assign the BTS to the Equipment Room
▪ Go to Design Plan to select all the front end components to be assigned to the
equipment room (TER)
▪ Place the mouse over a component and
perform a right mouse click
▪ Choose Assign to floor plan
▪ Select CC (Concourse floor map)

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Layout Plan
Assign the BTS to the Equipment Room
▪ Selected components appear on the CC Floor Plan
▪ Perform Align middle to align the selected components

Align Middle

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Layout Plan
Assign the BTS to the Equipment Room
▪ Perform Align Center/ Proportional fit to page to align the selected components
▪ Move the selected components to the equipment room

Equipment Room

Align Center

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Design Plan
Connect the BTS to DAS
▪ Return to Design Plan to click on the filter/ combiner
▪ Right mouse click to select Show floor sibling

Quadplexer image

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Layout Plan
Connect BTS to DAS
▪ At CC Floor Plan, click Bring to Front
▪ Now the combiner/ filter is on top of the rest of the component

Quadplexer image

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Layout Plan
Connect BTS to DAS
▪ Connect the Filter/ Combiner to the first coupler

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Routing of Cables and Placement of Components
▪ Perform routing and tidying up the cables
▪ Turn OFF the Floor Image to check and ensure that the cables are being routed
properly

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Layout Plan
Routing of Cables and Placement of Components
▪ Alternatively, can use Cable Route and Cable Route Magnet under Network
Design tab to tidy up the cables

Select the Cable

Route, use Magnet Cables are being
to snap the cables snapped according
Draw cable route to the cable route to the cable route

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Layout Plan
Routing of Cables and Placement of Components
▪ Click on the first coupler after BTS
▪ Right mouse click to select Show design sibling

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Routing of Cables and Placement of Components
▪ The first coupler appeared as shown on the Design Plan
▪ There is the need to tidy up the cables and components in order to see a clearer
view
▪ Use Automation Tool to tidy up the cables and components

Coupler

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Routing of Cables and Placement of Components
▪ Go to Network Design tab, click on the Automation Tool icon
▪ Automation Tool panel appears

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Routing of Cables and Placement of Components
▪ Under Placement tab:
▪ Spacing between parts:
Adjust the horizontal and vertical
spacing between the components
▪ Cable style:
Select Orthogonal
▪ Apply to:
Select Downlink from selected. (This will select
the paths under the splitter branches)
All option will select all the components
and paths in the whole schematic
▪ Automation template file allows saving of current
settings for future projects
▪ Click Apply button to apply settings to schematic

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Routing of Cables and Placement of Components

Orthogonal Style Polyline Style

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Cables Replacement
▪ Noticed that all the cables used are 1/2” coaxial cables regardless of the cable
length routed in the layout floor plan
▪ Go to Cable replacement tab to define rules for the different coaxial cables for
different cable run length

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Cable Replacement
▪ Click Add button to add the DMin (m), DMax (m), Manufacturer and Model
Number for the cables
▪ Part Selection panel appears, select Coaxial Cable or Jumper

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Cable Replacement
▪ For the 1st item, there isn’t the need to enter DMin (m) as its always 0m for the
first range. Enter DMax (m) = 15m for the 1/2” Coaxial Cable

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Cable Replacement
▪ Continue to add 7/8” and 5/4” Coaxial cables as shown
▪ For 7/8” Coaxial cable, enter DMin (m) = 15m and DMax
(m) = 50m
▪ In this case, do not need to enter Dmax (m) for 5/4”
Coaxial cable as all cable length above 50m will be using
5/4” Coaxial cables
▪ Apply to:
▪ All option will select all the components and paths in the
schematic
▪ Downlink from selected will select the paths under the
selected components branches
▪ Selected will select what was being highlighted
▪ Click Apply button to apply settings to schematic
▪ Click Save as… button
▪ Enter file name: Generic
▪ Click OK button to complete Automation tools
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Cable Replacement
▪ Click on the first coupler after BTS
▪ Select Downlink from selected and click Apply button
▪ Noticed that the cables with different length are being replaced with different cable
types

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Splitter Balancing
▪ Noticed that the Antennas EiRP Power are not balanced
▪ To balance the EiRP power, we can use the splitter balancing automation tools

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Splitter Balancing
▪ Go to Splitter balancing tab to define rules for the different splitter and couplers
▪ Click Add button to create splitter and couplers
▪ Part selection panel appears, under Category, select Passive DAS, Splitter

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Splitter Balancing
▪ Select Subcategory: Splitter
▪ Select Model: 2-way splitter for the first item
▪ Continue to add Directional Couplers by clicking
the Add button
▪ Continue to add 6dB, 8dB, 10dB, 15dB and 20dB
couplers as shown
All these components will be used in the
antennas EiRP power auto balancing process
▪ Select Downlink from selected
▪ Select System 2.6GHz – LTE – Sector 1 …
(Design is based on the weakest system)
▪ Click Save as… button to save template file
▪ Enter file name: Generic
▪ Click OK button to complete Automation tools
configuration

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Design Plan
Splitter Balancing
▪ Go to Design Plan, click on the first coupler
or splitter after BTS
Balanced EiRP After Splitter Balancing
▪ Select Downlink from selected
▪ Select System 2.6GHz – LTE – Sector 1 …
(Design is based on the weakest system)
▪ Click Apply button
▪ Noticed that the Antennas EiRP Power are
more balanced now.

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Design Plan
Splitter Balancing
▪ However, the Antennas EiRP Power did not meet the Link Budget requirement of -
11.79 dBm (+/- 3dBm)
▪ We must connect some of the antennas to the second POI port so as to meet the
requirement

LTE 2.6GHz EiRP power improved

from initial -16.74 dBm to -11.70 dBm

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Prediction Configuration & Simulation

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Layout Plan
LTE Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Select Prediction, Properties
▪ Alternatively, go to Home, Properties to perform prediction settings

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Layout Plan
LTE Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Under Propagation models, select Fast Ray Tracing
▪ Set DLOS (y1) to 2.5, same as the Path Loss Exponent (n value) in Link Budget
for 2.6 GHz

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Layout Plan
LTE Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Select Network optimization
▪ Select LTE under Band Technology
▪ Set RSRP Threshold at
-125.00 dBm same as the
Indoor Prediction Legend
▪ Leave the rest of the parameters
as default values

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Layout Plan
LTE Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Select Prediction tab
▪ Select Area
▪ Draw the desired Prediction Area on the
floor map
▪ Under Layers, tick Prediction
(Horizontal) & Rulers \ Area Calculators

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Layout Plan
LTE Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Draw the desired Prediction Area on the floor map
▪ Prediction Area is defined inside the pink dotted lines boundary
Prediction Area

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Layout Plan
LTE Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Alternatively, we can draw the concrete floor and set the
concrete floor area as Prediction Area on the floor map if the
prediction area and floor area are the same
▪ Go to Modelling, Draw horizontal
▪ Click the drop down menu
▪ Select Concrete, Concrete [Heavy]
▪ Go to Layers panel to turn on Horizontal Surfaces
▪ Draw the horizontal surfaces similar to desired prediction
area or the floor outline

Draw horizontal
surface
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Layout Plan
LTE Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Horizontal surface is covered in grey colour

Horizontal grey
concrete surface

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Layout Plan
LTE Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Click 3D Plan icon to show the horizontal surface drawn in 3D view

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Layout Plan
LTE Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Select the horizontal surface and perform a right mouse click
▪ Select Area Definition, select Set as prediction area
▪ Horizontal surface is now defined as the prediction area with pink dotted lines

Horizontal Surface
as Prediction area

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Layout Plan
LTE Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Go to Prediction panel.
▪ Under Output Maps, expand its view and select 2.6 GHz – LTE.
▪ Select Add Output Map
▪ Output Map Configuration panel appears

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Layout Plan
LTE Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Select Wireless service as 2.6 GHz - LTE
▪ Under Type, select LTE RSRP

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Layout Plan
LTE Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Under Specific Tab, Indoor signals, tick Combine systems, MIMO path option:
Path 1
▪ Select Fast Ray Tracing
▪ Tick Waveguiding and Use direct path on inclined surfaces and for radiating
cables

Combine systems:
When this check box is
selected, the composite
Ec/Io of all systems is
determined. In other words,
at each pixel, the sum of all
individual Ec/Io is
calculated.

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Layout Plan
LTE Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Under Filters Tab, tick Auto select all (default)
▪ Allows customization/selection of running simulation on different floor levels

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Layout Plan
LTE Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Under Legend Tab
▪ Click Edit buttons if customization is needed
▪ LTE RSRP Legend Properties panel appears

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Layout Plan
LTE Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Under Compliance Tab
▪ Click Add button to input Compliance criteria according to design requirement
▪ Click OK button to complete setting

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Layout Plan
LTE Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Go to Prediction panel, right mouse click on LTE RSRP
▪ Select Run Default Output Map (Current Plan)
▪ Tick the checkboxes to view LTE output map and Signal Probe

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Layout Plan
LTE Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Running Output Maps Options (Fast Ray
Tracing):

▪ Under Prediction Panel:

▪ To run the output map simulation,
right mouse click on the System
▪ Select Run is to run the all the systems
on all Layout Floor Plans
▪ Select Run on current plan is to run
individual selected systems on current
Layout Floor Plan only
▪ Select Run all on current plan is to run
all the systems on current Layout Floor
Plan only

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Layout Plan
LTE Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ LTE RSRP (signal strength) prediction met design requirement of
-95dBm @95%

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Layout Plan
WCDMA/UMTS Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Select Prediction, Properties
▪ Alternatively, go to Home, Properties to perform prediction settings

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Layout Plan
WCDMA/UMTS Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Under Propagation models, select Fast Ray Tracing
▪ Set DLOS (y1) to 2.5, same as the Path Loss Exponent (n value) in Link Budget
for WCDMA 2100 MHz – UMTS

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Layout Plan
WCDMA/UMTS Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Select Network optimization
▪ Select WCDMA under Band Technology
▪ Use default settings
▪ Go to Prediction panel
▪ Under Output Maps, select 2100 MHz – UMTS – WCDMA

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Layout Plan
WCDMA/UMTS Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Select Add Output Map
▪ Output Map Configuration panel appears

Click Add Output Map Button

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Layout Plan
WCDMA/UMTS Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Select Wireless service as 2100 MHz – UMTS - WCDMA
▪ Under Type, select RSCP

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Layout Plan
WCDMA/UMTS Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Select Specific Tab
▪ Indoor Signals, select Combine systems
▪ Select Fast Ray Tracing
▪ Tick Waveguiding and Use direct path on inclined surfaces and for radiating cables

Combine systems:
When this check box is
selected, the composite
Ec/Io of all systems is
determined. In other words,
at each pixel, the sum of all
individual Ec/Io is calculated.

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Layout Plan
WCDMA/UMTS Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Under Filters Tab, tick Auto select all (default)
▪ Allows customization/selection of running simulation on different floor levels

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Layout Plan
WCDMA/UMTS Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Under Legend Tab
▪ Click Edit buttons if customization is needed
▪ RSCP Legend Properties panel appears (similar to LTE settings)

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Layout Plan
WCDMA/UMTS Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Under Compliance Tab
▪ Click Add button to input Compliance criteria according to design requirement
▪ Click OK button to complete setting

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Layout Plan
WCDMA/UMTS Simulation / Prediction Setting Right mouse click on RSCP
▪ Go to Prediction panel, right mouse click on RSCP
▪ Select Run Default Output Map (Current Plan)
▪ Tick the checkboxes to view WCDMA output map
and Signal Probe

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Layout Plan
WCDMA/UMTS Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ RSCP (signal strength) prediction met design requirement of
-90dBm @95%

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Layout Plan
GSM Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Select Prediction, Properties
▪ Alternatively, go to Home, Properties to perform prediction settings

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Layout Plan
GSM Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Under Propagation models, select Fast Ray Tracing
▪ Set DLOS (y1) to 2.5, same as the Path Loss Exponent (n value) in Link Budget
for GSM 1800 MHz – DCS

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Layout Plan
GSM Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Select Network optimization
▪ Select GSM under Band Technology
▪ Use default settings
▪ Go to Prediction panel
▪ Under Output Maps, select 1800 MHz – DCS – GSM

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Layout Plan
GSM Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Select Add Output Map
▪ Output Map Configuration panel appears

Click Add Output Map Button

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Layout Plan
GSM Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Select Wireless service as 1800 MHz – DCS - GSM
▪ Under Type, select Signal strength
▪ Under Name, enter RxLev

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Layout Plan
GSM Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Select Specific Tab
▪ Indoor Signal, select Combine systems and
Composite power (all antennas combined)
▪ Select Fast Ray Tracing
▪ Tick Waveguiding and Use direct path on
inclined surfaces and for radiating cables
▪ Tick the Include Mobile station parameters
in DL signal propagation simulations

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Layout Plan
GSM Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Under Filters Tab, click Auto select all (default)
▪ Allows customization/selection of running simulation on different floor levels

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Layout Plan
GSM Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Under Legend Tab
▪ Click Edit buttons if customization is needed
▪ Power Legend Properties panel appears (similar to LTE & WCDMA settings)

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Layout Plan
GSM Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ Under Compliance Tab
▪ Click Add button to input Compliance criteria according to design requirement
▪ Click OK button to complete setting

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Layout Plan
GSM Simulation / Prediction Setting Right mouse click on RxLev
▪ Go to Prediction panel, right mouse click on RxLev
▪ Select Run Default Output Map (Current Plan)
▪ Tick the checkboxes to view GSM output map and
Signal Probe

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Layout Plan
GSM Simulation / Prediction Setting
▪ RxLev (signal strength) prediction met design requirement of
-80dBm @95%

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 Reports
Horizontal Link Budget Report
Equipment List Report

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Reports
Horizontal Link Budget Reports
Select the required
▪ Select Reports, Horizontal Link Budget System Outputs
▪ Under General, select the Systems required for
report generation

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Reports
Horizontal Link Budget Reports
▪ Click Advanced tab, select Group by antenna

Select the followings Report & Summary

contents.

Selected report categories :

1) Summary

Selected summary columns :

1) Sys. Out. Reference Signal Pwr [dBm]
2) System Output Power
3) Total DAS Gain/Loss
4) Antenna Gain
5) Antenna EIRP (Pwr per Ch.) [dBm]
6) Reference Signal Power [dBm]

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Reports
Horizontal Link Budget Reports
▪ iBwave report, Export to Excel format

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Reports
Equipment List Reports
Tick here to
▪ Select Reports, Equipment List select all
components.

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Reports
Equipment List Reports
▪ Under Sorting criteria, First Column, select Type
▪ Click Ascending
▪ Select Advanced tab, set Cable safety margin at 0%, changes in % can be
made under Project Properties

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Reports
Equipment List Reports
▪ iBwave Report, Export to Excel format

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Reports
Simulation/ Prediction Output Maps
Tick here to select
▪ Select Reports, Output Maps all Systems

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Reports
Simulation/ Prediction Output Maps
▪ Under Sorting criteria, First Column, select Output Map
▪ Click Ascending
▪ Select Advanced tab, set Report font at 10 (default)

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Reports
Simulation/ Prediction Output Maps
▪ iBwave Report, Export to PDF format

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Questionnaires Before Starting iBwave Design

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Questionnaires
Design requirements needed from regional requestors.
▪ Number of Operators.
▪ Number of Systems and its Frequencies.
▪ Number of Carriers per system.
▪ Floor maps of Buildings and Site Information:
▪ Top plane views and side views in Autocad or PDF format.
▪ Autocad is more preferred as it consists of more detail information.
▪ English Language version is more preferred if available.
▪ Height of different floors and buildings.
▪ Scale of the floor maps for different floors and buildings.
▪ Model of the Master & Remote Optical Repeater for active solutions.
▪ Antennas Gain and Type:
▪ Omni Antennas
▪ Panel Antennas
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Questionnaires
RF coaxial cables type:
▪ Using ½” throughout design or flexible

Design requirements needed for internal designer for Antennas Placement.

▪ Provide the Power Output requirement at the BTS or Remote units for different
systems (dBm).
▪ Antenna EIRP power (dBm) for different systems.
▪ Antenna Cell Radius Coverage (m) or Inter-antenna Distance Range (m).

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