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Base Stations

Using a macrocell model, SOMA’s base stations are designed and built to provide maximum cell coverage and range while reducing power consumption and heat generation. They are an integral part of any SOMA-based broadband wireless network.

Each base station provides a non-line of sight cell radius of up to 16 km (10 miles), as much as four times greater than that provided by other solutions. As a result, a single SOMA base station can support hundreds of users—even over the most distant or challenging terrain—reducing deployment and operational costs for service providers.

SOMA base stations have a modular design that scales from one to six sectors per cell site. This scalability makes it easy for service providers to accommodate a growing service area or subscriber base by adding sectors on a “pay as you grow” basis—without the cost and time constraints of deploying wireline infrastructure.

The SOMA family of macrocell base stations includes the following.

NPM 2000 base station, a scalable, non-line of sight platform that supports hundreds of subscribers within a cell radius of up to 16 km. This unit is available as a standard 19” rack mount.

NPM 2500 base station, which provides the same capabilities as the NPM 2000 but in exceptionally compact 1RU footprint that can be deployed almost anywhere for minimal costs. The NPM 2500 makes use of a tower-mounted radio to reduce power consumption and increase range and subscriber density without sacrificing quality of service.

ABS-1000 base station, part of the SOMA FlexMAX Mobile WiMAX System, also utilizes a tower-mounted radio subsystem to increase signal strength and subscriber capacity while reducing the number of cell sites required for Mobile WiMAX deployments. In addition, the ABS-1000 incorporates three advanced antenna processing technologies—AAS, MIMO and STC—to further boost range, throughput and subscriber density.