Installation Instructions Chapter 1

Ripwave Base Station I&C Guide Navini Networks, Inc.

Chapter 1

36 Part #40-00047-01 Rev F v1.0 (TTA)

October 23, 2003

Global Positioning System (GPS)

One Global Positioning System (GPS) antenna is used with each Base Station to provide a

timing signal for synchronizaton. A second GPS antenna can be provided for redundancy. The

Ripwave Base Station uses the VIC 100 GPS Antenna (Figure 7).

Figure7: VIC 100 GPS Antenna

Mounting Racks & Enclosures

The BTS can be installed indoors or outdoors in industry standard 19- or 23-inch racks. Rack

adapters are needed to mount the equipment in a standard 23-inch rack. For outdoor BTSs, the

customer can supply any standard enclosure from a multitude of vendors. Appendix I offers

suggestions for outdoor BTS enclosures. Figure 8 shows 3 BTSs installed indoors.

Figure 8: Indoor BTS (Combo Chassis)

Buss bar with

PSX surge

arrestors for RF

& Cal cables

RF Shelf

Digital Shelf

Rectifiers

Surge arrestor

for GPS cable