Mobilitie, the purveyor for Sprint of such new but instant classic wireless designs as:
and
and
…has (finally) come up with a fairly-decent site configuration. I call the new design the “Fanny Pack.” Here’s what it looks like, as recently deployed in the City of Los Angeles:
The RRU, UE (backhaul) Relay, the power distribution, and elements other than the downlink antenna are all located within the Fanny Pack.
I see the Fanny Pack design as Mobilitie’s best efforts to date to come with and deploy a closer-to-mainline wireless site that is far less awful that its prior outdoors site configurations. There are some site deployment issues with the Fanny Pack design, but those issues are relatively easy to address.
We’ve seen plans for the same basic Fanny Pack design, but with the equipment enclosure on the back of the pole. Needless to say, we’ll refer to that as the “Back Pack” when deployed. Photos to follow after the first Back Pack goes up near us.
Keep up this better work, Mobilitie!
Jonathan
* Okay, as you should have guessed by now, these are my design names, not Mobilitie’s. Got it? Good!
# Ms. Shannon Nichols, a NCE Permitting Manager for Mobilitie in Southern California told me on 12/6/2017 that the wood pole configuration shown above, with its standoff bracket and equipment, was a design requirement of the City of Los Angeles. She went on to say that Mobilitie would have preferred to have its equipment flush to the body of the pole. Thanks for the clarification, Shannon.
