Certification makes FlexWave DAS suitable for central offices

NEBS Level 3 is a set of carrier-class standards developed by Telcordia Technologies to standardise central office equipment around a strict set of requirements based on GR-63-CORE and GR-1089-CORE for attributes such as fire suppression, thermal margin testing, vibration resistance, airflow patterns, acoustic limits, failover, RF emissions and tolerance requirements.

By attaining NEBS Level 3 compliance, TE’s FlexWave DAS host unit can be transparently integrated into service provider central offices. The carrier host units are suitable for cloud RAN architecture and utilises existing wireline infrastructure to provide wireless access.

Deploying FlexWave host units within the service provider’s central office allows the wireless operator to lower the cost of small cell architecture by enabling access to existing dark fibre and muxponder solutions such as CWDM for efficient, digitised RF transport. As a variant of the standard FlexWave host unit, the NEBS Level 3-certified unit will be familiar to installers and requires no retraining.