As markets go from 2G to 3G, smartphones are driving the need for in-building coverage and capacity.
The smartphone craze has hyper accelerated the whole notion of consumerization of IT, whereby people have become ever more reliant on their devices for business, as well as pleasure. This, of course, means people don’t only want to have voice coverage inside a building, but data coverage and capacity too.
Traditional voice networks were simply not designed to provide penetration inside a building, much less to support smartphones within dense walls. So how does the CEO on the 30th floor of a building use his smartphone? The answer is, s/he can’t without an in-building system. Thus the need for DAS.
Another big driver of DAS is the public venue space, such as hospitals, universities and stadiums where lots of visitors congregate and need to use their smartphones at once, putting a lot of strain on the system. Since networks were made for voice outside buildings, in-built systems are now almost an absolute necessity for those ever critical applications, be they for healthcare, work, or entertainment.
But just how easy is it to deploy an in-building DAS system? RCR takes a look in the following video segment…
