Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS)

The reliability of your DAS is mission critical.  It needs to respond in Real-Time to expanded coverage, quick changes in bandwidth requirements and technology, network moves, adds, and changes, fast and easy repairs and restorations, while deploying the best technology for the most minimal downtime.

With mobile data traffic anticipated to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 92% from 2010 to 2015, mobile network connection speeds forecasted to increase 10-fold in just 3 years, and two-thirds of  the world’s mobile data traffic foreseen to be video by 2015, DAS deployments cannot depend upon slow and antiquated technologies.

Like mobile wireless, every facet of technology has and continues to change and advance at lightning speed, except for two — the decades old fiber optic installation methods that actually support those advanced technologies and antiquated connectivity solutions.

That is…until now.  Sumitomo has solved the limitations of conventional fiber optic cabling and connectivity to bring the most advanced solutions for the DAS network with its revolutionary:

     • FutureFLEX® Air-blown Fiber® — an environmentally green,
       complete end-to-end, splice-free optical fiber and pathway solution
       that provides bandwidth-on-demand for IMMEDIATE scalability;
       quick & easy upgrades without disruption to facilities and secure
       areas; optimum fiber transmission and signal integrity for optimal
       latency… plus much more.

     • Lynx2 CustomFit® Splice-On Connectors — for customized,
        on-site exact cable builds and terminations facilitating faster
        installations & MACs, faster repairs & restoration, and better
        performance for less downtime…without the shorts & slack
        and logistic delays of preterminated cables.

Why Kaiser Permanente, Orange County Sanitation District,
China Lake (Naval Air Weapons Station), University of Phoenix
Stadium (Home of the Arizona Cardinals), and Others Choose
FutureFLEX Air-Blown Fiber?

Unlike traditional optical fiber structured cabling systems, FutureFLEX: 

      • Enables quick, easy, and Real-Time fiber installations, upgrades,
         and expansions even in highly secure, sanitized, and hard to
         reach areas… without disruption to facilities or daily operations

      • Requires no construction work and  re-entrance into conduit,
         ceiling tiles, floors etc. for quick and easy fiber installations,
         upgrades, and MACs  — eliminating the need for infectious
         disease control processes for hospital-healthcare while
         promoting safety for all types of facilities

      • Provides virtually unlimited pathway, fiber, and bandwidth capacity

      • Blows at speeds of up to 150 ft. per minute the exact type and
         count of fiber required whenever and wherever needed in
         MINUTES versus the days or weeks associated with a traditional
         cable pull for REAL-TIME BANDWIDTH on DEMAND for
         IMMEDIATE SCALABILITY

      • Allows the DAS network to keep up at the exact pace of
         emerging technology

      • Provides significantly faster restorations than traditional cabling
         for mission critical emergency communications

      • Eliminates the need for often unused, wasted, and potentially
         soon to be obsolete dark fiber

      • Solves the need to physically access secure, hard to reach, and
         hazardous areas of the network, eliminating mission critical
         downtime and potential fiber damage

      • Delivers 38 reusable fiber pathways in a 4 inch conduit versus
         3 non-reusable associated with traditional cables

      • Solves duct bank and congested conduit problems

      • Eliminates or reduces significantly the installation and cost of
         conduit and innerduct, and the installation of new conduit