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Navini Networks, Inc. Ripwave Base Station I&C Guide
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Chapter 2: Installation
Pre-installation
As was shown in Figure 4, prior to installing the equipment a number of planning and acquisition
activities take place. The installation itself takes only about 2 days. The I&C crew may or may
not be involved with all the pre-installation activities. Of these, they are most likely to be
involved in the Site Candidate Evaluation, the gathering of data for the Interference Analysis,
and the Antenna Power & Cable Selection step of the process.
Project Plan
A Project Plan is a document that lays out the work to be done, the objectives of the project, the
schedule, resources required, and so forth. If Navini is performing the I&C activities, a Project
Manager is assigned. The Project Manager prepares the Project Plan and shares it with the
Navini and customer teams.
Coverage Prediction Map
Early in the planning of deployment of Ripwave Base Station equipment, an RF Engineer will go
through the process of studying the RF environment of the candidate sites that the customer has
identified. Readings are taken and analyzed at each site in order to predict what range of
coverage can be expected from installing a Base Station at the site.
Coverage predictions account for both Base Station performance and Marketing objectives with
the service. The customer accomplishes the latter as part of the decisions concerning site
selection.
Site Candidate Evaluation
Often Technicians will be very comfortable with either the networking side or the wireless side
of the system, but not usually both. To evaluate a potential install site, a form helps ensure all
aspects of the site have been considered. Information about the site is recorded on the form.
Since each site is unique, the form helps to ensure nothing is taken for granted or assumed about
the installation site for the Ripwave equipment.