Innovative Combiner Box Solutionsfor Enhanced In-Building DAS

Rand SkopasDir. of Field Sales

Industry Leaders Using Combiner Box in DAS

• WMATA Project

• Pentagon City Mall

• NBC Studios

• Major Network Operators engage in Multi-Carrier expansion efforts

Agenda

• DAS News

• DAS Market Overview: ABI Research

• Key DAS Definitions

• Role of the Combiner Box

• Review DAS Combiner Box Projects

• Microlab Company Overview

• Working with Microlab on a DAS Solution

• Getting Started

Recent DAS News: Managing Mobile Usage

• Growth of mobile phone usage continues

– Global smart-phones shipments jumped 43% 2Q2010 vs. 2Q 2009 (source: Strategy Analytics)

– Google Android's smart-phone shipments exploded by 886 percent in the 2Q 2010 vs. 2Q 2009 (source: Canalys)

– Mobile broadband usage grows 5,000% over the last three years on AT&T Mobility's network (source: Fred Devereaux, President for the Western Region)

Recent DAS News: Managing Mobile Usage

• Impact on Mobile Networks

– Wireless operators have pledged more than $72 billion in spending this year alone on network upgrades (source: GSM Association)

• Asia Pacific: $34 billion.

• North America: $19 billion

• Europe : $14 billion

– Mobile broadband is set to account for 52% of all operator investment in mobile infrastructure globally.

– North America will spend the greatest percentage – 80% of its total mobile capex investment on mobile broadband.

Recent DAS News: Growing Role of DAS

• “The DAS market is ready to explode”

– 60-80% of worldwide mobile/data activity is initiated inside a building

– “The preponderance of outdoor DAS systems will be neutrally hosted sites” -Connie Durczak, Senior Director, PCIA(Wireless Infrastructure Assn)

• “MetroPCS expands its markets and 3G/4G using macro sites and DAS”- Roger Linquist, MetroPCS CEO (Feb ‘10)

Recent DAS News: Attracting New Players

Jan „10

ExteNet closes on $128 million financing and

acquires the DAS unit of SBA Communications

InSite receives private equity investment from

Catalyst

Feb „10

Tyco said DAS a key factor for purchase

of ADC

July „10

Crown Castle acquires NewPath Networks

Sep „10

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ABI Research

In-Building DAS Deployments By Region(000s)

ABI Research: In-Building Wireless DAS Deployments

“Carrier-owned business model is the most prominent world-wide with a move towards a shared-cost model between multiple carriers for Multi-Carrier Systems”

“The Neutral-Host System holds excellent promise for the future of this market”

ABI Research: In-Building Wireless DAS Revenue

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In-Building DAS Revenue By Region(Millions)

“DAS suppliers are focused on maximum utilization of existing infrastructure with minimum disruption to the structure and its occupants”

DAS Verticals

Key Verticals: Multi-Carrier Growth Requirements

• In terms of penetration, the most attractive vertical for DAS is Airports/Train Stations, with almost a 15% market share @ >$800 million

• Hotels and resorts account for 10% of the market

• Healthcare represents an 8% market share

– Healthcare vertical is one of the fastest growing segments in North America, growing @ 19.6% annually, with $450 million forecasted by 2012

• In terms of total system revenues, the office/corporate campus vertical is #1 @ 18% in 2009 (>$1 billion!)

– The majority of these are for >500K square feet deployments

Active DAS Players

Passive DAS Players

Definition of Key Terms

In-Building DASDistributed antenna system seeking to achieve uniform signal coverage in all portions of the deployment

Passive DASPassive DAS solutions do not contain any active elements that need to be powered in order to distribute the RF signal within a building. Passive DAS uses coax cables as the cabling infrastructure.

Active DASActive DAS solutions use CAT-5 and fiber-optic cabling to amplify and extend signals to a network of antennas placed throughout the building. Since fiber optics are often used, electrical components are needed to change RF signals to light pulses for transmission on fiber. These electrical components then convert and amplify these signals to RF for radiation by the antennas.

Key Terms continued

Multi-Carrier Interface to DASCommon to both passive and active DAS, a head end unit interfaces with all of the RF signal sources (typically BTS signals provided by the network operators). These signals are then combined and routed directly or indirectly to the antenna portion of the DAS.

Combiner BoxThe Universal Building Block that facilitates the combining of up to 8 wireless carriers in multiple bands to four combined outputs feeding multiple sectors of the DAS.

Microlab‟s Combiner Box Solution

• Description

– Point of interface between the carriers and the DAS

– Allows multiple carriers to interface to DAS system

– Serves both passive and active DAS environments

Microlab‟s Combiner Box Solution

• Performance Features

– Standard solution offered by Microlab is the KM-90N. This unit enables 4 carriers at 698-960 MHz and 4 carriers at 1710-2700 MHz

– Self-contained and available as a “plug-n-play” solution, the KM-90 offers high input signal isolation and superior PIM performance in a virtually loss-less environment.

– System upgrades include additional frequency band capabilities and a multi-band monitoring port that enables complete system analysis without disconnecting any of the carrier inputs or sector outputs.

Microlab Combiner Box

Broadband Combiner Box – KM-90

Combiner Boxes for Train Systems

Completely Customized Head-End Designs:

– First with Multi Band Philosophy

– Tetra Band: 380 to 960 MHz

– Wireless Multi-Bands: 380MHz to 2700MHz

– New Broadbands: to 6,000 MHz

Review Alternative Solutions

• DAS system integrators have a choice when needing multi-carrier DAS capabilities…

• Either build point of interface completely on their own requires assembling couplers, combiners, attenuators, etc.

– DAS performance risk

– Project time risk

– Cost risk

– Quality risk

• Or utilize Microlab‟s Combiner Box Solution

– Can use standard combiner box

– Can customize to supplement additional project requirements

Advantages of the Combiner Box Solution

• Conservation of resources – Allows you to offer expanded services to your customer without

taking on additional resources/man-power

• Guaranteed performance– We take the performance guess-work out of the equation

• Guaranteed price– Identify significant portions of system costs “BEFORE” they

present their proposal… Understand bottom-line profit margins in advance!

• Professional appearance– Detailed art-work puts your Logo in the most favorable light

• Turn-key concept speeds deployment– Avoid costly tuning/trouble-shooting delays at the job-site

• Saves everyone‟s most valuable resource: Time!

DAS Combiner Box Projects by Industry Leaders

• WMATA Project in US Capital region– Supporting technical requirements of Network Operators

Consortium for Neutral-Host environment

– Hybrid System combines active and passive elements to achieve superior system requirements

– Hi-Reliability Environment: Mission-Critical carrier interface/system support

• Pentagon City Mall in Arlington, VA– Expanded band combiner box deployed to support totally

passive DAS

– Up-grade to previously deployed limited frequency combiner box by others

– In-System performance @ <-150dBc

DAS Combiner Box Projects by Industry Leaders

• NYC Studios of National Broadcasting Corporation– 80 story facility including all major network operators at multiple

frequencies

– Hybrid system using fiber for long/back-haul… passives for “last mile”

• Support of Major Network Operator Neutral Host expansion efforts – Neutral host requirements supported by single network operator

– Passive active deployments all include the Combiner Box Solution

Will Microlab‟s Combiner Box Solution work for you?

• Are you working in a Multi-Carrier DAS Environment?

• Is quality and performance important to your customers?

• Is project lead-time a critical factor in your decision-making process?

• Are you concerned with the possibility of project cost over-runs ?

• Is project resource allocation a priority?

• Project Engineering Manager: “As a result of using Microlab‟s Combiner Box Solution, I am now able to spend more time in front of my customers driving sales rather than in the lab trying to build a „solved problem‟”

Microlab Company Overview

• A Wireless Telecom Group Company, founded in 1949, designs and manufactures high-performance passive RF and Microwave Solutions such as dividers, directional couplers, filters and Integrated Multi-Carrier Combiner Systems

• Distinctive Component Characteristics:– Broadband – Low Loss– Low PIM– Superior Quality/Construction

• Our Solutions Are Used in:– Cellular Telephone Towers– Radio Base stations– In-building DAS– Global Transportation/Communications Systems– Homeland Security Systems

Next Steps to a Solution

Contact Microlab TODAYto discuss your system requirements

Rand Skopas+1 (973) 386-9696 ext. 3114

rskopas@wtcom.com

Danny Larsen+1 (973) 386-9696 ext. 3109

dlarsen@wtcom.com

Tony Ramsden+1 (973) 386-9696 ext. 3111

tramsden@wtcom.com

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