Antennas in the data center

Thu Jul 18 13:54:32 UTC 2019

Thanks for the info on the standards portion.

The booster configuration has been setup in a test scenario where the
external antenna has been placed outside with line of site to the tower,
less than a tenth of a mile away, with the feed cable run down a hallway
indoors, the booster connected, and the indoor antenna connected (not in
the data center though).

Test with LTE equipment, ie. cell phones, has brought the signal from
barely a single bar of 1x to 4 bars of LTE with good speeds.

Manager has no issue with equipment purchased and has polled the other
tenants in the same data center and they are also OK with it. He has just
cited that there is some standard but has not been forthcoming with any
documentation.

I figured if there was such a standard then someone here would probably
have run across it at some time.

I am getting the feeling this is just something he has heard or been told
in the past and really doesn't know.

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 9:35 AM Matt Harris <matt at netfire.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 8:30 AM Robert Webb <rwfireguru at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So I have a situation where I am trying to get LTE to an out of band
>> router and there is no signal available in the data center. There was a
>> booster setup purchased and I have a manager telling me that standards,
>> industry and not local, prohibit the installation.
>>
>> He has yet to produce any documented industry standard so I thought I
>> would reach out to see if anyone here has heard of this.
>>
>> We fall under NIST controls and I haven't found anything there and have
>> also looked at TIA and not found anything.
>>
>
> I've never heard of any industry standard preventing such a thing. There
> are a few questions this raises though. The first and most obvious being,
> are you sure that a "booster setup" will actually help? Have you done a
> site survey to figure out how to actually accomplish what you need to
> accomplish? The other question is whether perhaps the issue he has is with
> the specific "booster setup" chosen. Perhaps there's something naughty
> about it, in particular, that has caused him to not want it in his facility
> (cheap Chinese radios are known, for example, for polluting the spectrum
> outside of the frequencies that they are designed to operate within.) Maybe
> he has other folks doing legit RF stuff in there and doesn't want to risk
> that pollution?
>
>
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