Allen Telecom's MIKOM division tests UMTS RF repeater

Allen Telecom's (Beachwood, Ohio) MIKOM division, the largest designer and manufacturer of repeaters in the world, has successfully built and tested a medium power UMTS RF (radio frequency) repeater for 3G (Third Generation) applications.

The model MR2001 repeater is compliant with the latest version of the 3G Standards Board interim specifications for repeaters and is the first in a family of UMTS 3G repeaters designed to operate in the 1920 to 2150GHz bandwidth. This model features high performance, superior efficiency and a small outdoor package. The MR2001 offers adjustable RF bandwidth from 1 UMTS channel (5 MHz) to 3 UMTS channels, an RF gain in uplink and downlink of 85dB, downlink RF output power higher than 1 watt per UMTS channel and an uplink noise figure of less than 2.5 dB. It was designed to fill in gaps and holes in wireless signal coverage and can be used to drive in-building coverage or connect a base station to a fiber-optic distributed antenna coverage system.

The MR2001 repeater was fully tested by MIKOM and passed all interim transmission quality tests including, repeater output power, frequency stability, out of band gain, error vector magnitude, peak code domain error, unwanted emission and adjacent channel power rejection, both during the design phase and prototype production.

Edited by Maeve McKenna
Assistant Editor, RF Globalnet