Re: OT: Increasing Cell Phone Signal inside a NOC?
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 need an LDAP server to fix this ;-> Uhm, if your cellphone provider supports call forwarding to another number when the phone is outside of signal range, then you could set up an in-house cordless phone system and everyone could set up their cell to forward to their cordless phone. Talk to any local company selling PBXs and office phone systems for more info on office-wide cordless phone systems. This will work because the transmitters are inside the metal walls and they can be placed to work around obstructions like HVAC or racks. --Michael Dillon P.S. of course, my first answer might have been right too... http://www.innmug.org/information/switchview.html Replace the cordless phone system with 802.11b and VOIP and some LDAP servers and this phoneset http://www.symbol.com/news/pressreleases/press_releases_wirelesslans_vo.html :-)
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 Michael.Dillon@radianz.com 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 need an LDAP server to fix this ;->
:-) One suggestion I haven't seen yet: simply complain. Your cellular service provider may install a new base station in the area if enough people ask them to. Here in Europe, there is 1800 MHz digital service nearly everywhere in and around cities, as long as you're above ground. I haven't encountered a building yet that could kill an otherwise strong signal. It's only when the signal is mediocre to marginal anyway that thick walls will kill it.
We use an in building cellular system. We have microhubs placed in our hubrooms on the campus. Then there are antenna's placed around the inside of the building that use cat5 cabling back to the microhub. The microhub sends the signal back to the main hub that then connects to the cellular provider. It is actually a very nice set up. The production areas we have are very similiar to a NOC situation and by placing an antenna inside of the encased area it would provide you with a solution. Kim On Wednesday 12 March 2003 05:11 am, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 Michael.Dillon@radianz.com 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 need an LDAP server to fix this ;->
:-)
One suggestion I haven't seen yet: simply complain. Your cellular service provider may install a new base station in the area if enough people ask them to. Here in Europe, there is 1800 MHz digital service nearly everywhere in and around cities, as long as you're above ground. I haven't encountered a building yet that could kill an otherwise strong signal. It's only when the signal is mediocre to marginal anyway that thick walls will kill it.
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
One suggestion I haven't seen yet: simply complain. Your cellular service provider may install a new base station in the area if enough
This is very true and sometimes it works. Even for the small customers. I had a problem with Nextel that required Engineering to come to my house and do some site surveys. Nextel determined that had chosen a poor site for one of their towers and they decided to put another tower on the planning board. So sometimes just one person complaining can help. Andrew --- <zerocool@netpath.net> http://www.andrewsworld.net/ ICQ: 2895251 Cisco Certified Network Associate "Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself."
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