User's Manual

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Figure 29

Example of a floor plan showing complete radio coverage

Deployment terms

Terms associated with deployment are listed in the following table.

Table 4

Deployment terms

Term Definition

Coverage area An area where a handset can be used to make and receive calls.

Cell The coverage area provided by the basestation antennas.

Cell boundary The parameter of a cell coverage area.

Critical point A point or location defined as the extreme corner of a coverage area

that can be difficult for the radio signal to reach.

Cell center The installation point of the basestation serving the cell.

Range The distance from a cell center to its cell boundary.

Traffic table Traffic tables record site traffic information from the floor plan and the

customer. The traffic table helps to determine the required number of

basestations for each cell.

The following figure illustrates these terms.

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