CommScope, Inc recently introduced a new family of ultra-wideband base station antennas that will meet the growing demands of wireless operators and enable them to provide optimum performance as well as manage their operational costs. The new antennas will support bandwidth growth and offer additional radio spectrum availability.

The CommScope HW ultra-wideband base station antennas are currently available in three different configurations of two, four or six dual-polarization radiating arrays under a single radome.

In a release, Ray Butler, vice president, Product Line and Engineering, Base Station Antennas said, “CommScope’s new family of high performance, ultra-wideband antennas will be very beneficial for the forward-looking operator who may need to deploy additional radio frequency spectrum and support higher bandwidth demands in the future. With the HW family, an operator can install the relevant model today that will not only cover its current frequency requirements but also provide exceptional performance in the future as new spectrum becomes available. In the past, the operator would have had to deploy two or three separate antennas in order to support the same amount of bandwidth.”

The design of the HW family offers users a number of advantages such as superior, repeatable electrical performance from every unit; potentially higher spectral efficiency through 100 percent passive intermodulation (PIM) testing performed on all base station antennas, contributing to system-wide noise containment; a small physical footprint for deployment in areas with highly restrictive zoning; consolidated design that can lead to fewer antennas and lower-cost deployments and design features that yields twice the bandwidth of typical high-band antennas.

Operators will have the option either to upgrade or switch to different technologies or frequencies as and when their needs change as each antenna in the HW family can be deployed in 2G, 2.5G, 3G and 4G environments as well as LTE, UMTS, CDMA, GSM, and WiMAX (News - Alert).

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