Dual-Band Antennas Take the Stage
How to squeeze more juice from limited infrastructure
One of the most difficult challenges facing the telecom industry is how to meet growing demand without significantly expanding infrastructure. Many cell towers are at or near full capacity already.
Investing in infrastructure upgrades or acquiring additional sites can be costly, not to mention the delays that can come with acquiring, permitting, and building new sites. There is a real need for solutions that can meet the demand without overloading towers.
Enter dual-band microwave systems. By combining multiple bands in a single antenna, they offer ultrahigh capacity backhaul to help operators address the capacity problems they face. Dual-band systems reduce tower loads by replacing two single-band antennas, requiring less equipment providing increasingly robust microwave solutions.
Large, dual-band antennas are ideal for long-haul applications where ultrahigh capacity is not possible with a single-frequency operation. The antennas enable multiple-signal propagating in two different frequency bands by one set of feed and reflector.
Dual-band antennas reduce:
- tower load
- tower rental space
- transportation cost
- installation time.
RFS (Radio Frequency Systems), a leading manufacturer of cable and antenna systems, offers an antenna covering the two most popular frequency bands, 6 GHz and 11 GHz.The PrimeLine TowerBooster microwave antennas deliver the capacity and performance needed to backhaul large volumes of 5G data over long distance with low total cost of ownership. With support for horizontal and vertical polarization in each band, the PrimeLine TowerBooster antennas offer 4X capacity compared with single-band, single-polarized microwave antennas, and 2X that of double-polarized microwave antennas.
RFS antennas are available for shipping from Talley, one of the nation’s largest distributors of wireless infrastructure, communications, and mobile products. For more information, go to talleycom.com.
