User's Manual

FiberDistributedAntennaSystem(FiberDAS)
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DMU – Remote head end
Bird'sDMU100seriesisacompactheadendthatcanfunctionasalowpowerrepeaterorBTSinte rface.Theunitcan
directlysupportupto4remotesorcanfiberfeedaHeadendMasterUnit.Remoteaccessisprovidedbyeitherthe
BirdRGWorviaEthernetconnection.Theunitisaruggedc
onvectioncooled,IP65chassisdesignedforoutdoor
locations.
Itispossibletobu
ildtheDMUtosu pportmorethanoneband,however,thetypesofbandsandthenecessary
duplexersforaconfigurationmustbeverifiedtoensurecompatibilitywiththeRGW.
Figure 20 DMU – Remote Head End
In Figure21 ,theDMUisusedtopickupthesignalataremotelocationandthenitistransmittedonthefiberto
fourdifferentloc
ationsthatneedcoverage.TheRUcanbeconnectedtocoaxialspreadingnetworksifneeded.
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DMU Feeding Remote Units
In Figure22 ,theDMUisfeedingaHeadendMasterUnitwhichinturnfeedstheRemoteUnits(RU).Thisisafar
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DMU Feeding BMU
TheDMUisequippedwithalowpoweruplinkamplifier.Theunitshouldbeusedinalocationthathasadequate
signalsothatpowerlevelofamobilephonewillsuffice.