In band combiners

Due to the increasing restriction on tower infrastructure deployments by local municipal policies and the physical limitations of towers, operators are facing difficulties in adding new antenna systems to their existing sites. Network equipment sharing between multiple operators or multiple technologies are a cost-effective solution to the deployment of current and next generation base stations. By network sharing, the operators can benefit from massive Capex and Opex savings and faster time to market for overlaying the new technologies.

Multiple frequency bands or multiple channels within the same band can be combined and fed to one antenna element. This allows multiple operators to share the infrastructure equipment or allows one operator to share its existing equipment amongst legacy, current, and future technologies.

Filtronic’s combiner product range enables the transmission of two or more RF signals through a single antenna. By providing a very narrow guard band, low loss and low PIM, the In-band combiner enables the combination of multiple continuous or in-continuous channels within the same frequency band.