Capacity Planning; Site Planning / Cell Coverage; 1. Using The Handset For Reception Measurement - Snom M700 Deployment Manual

∙ Office areas with obstructions like elevator shafts, stairwells, metal walls: Up to 10 meters
∙ Shop floors: Up to 60 meters
∙ Exhibition halls or production areas without obstacles: Up to 100 meters
∙ Underground garages: Up to 20 meters
∙ Outdoors without obstructions: Up to 200‐300 meters (for indoor use only)

Capacity Planning

Each base station has a maximum limit of parallel calls.
Base station
Repeater
To avoid insufficient user experience through congested DECT network, the capacity for the DECT
network should be planned in advance.
Due to different usage patterns, the number of base station required to fulfil the demand of voice
channels may vary.
The total capacity in the coverage area of a base station is always limited to the capacity of a single
base station.

Site Planning / Cell Coverage

The actual cell coverage and quality in an installation can be determined with a special handset
feature, in which the handset establishes an audio loop.
Snom urgently recommends to
Note: This feature can be used with base stations in an infrastructure, but also with single
base stations without Ethernet connection, so the feature allows to identify obstacles
and difficulties in an installation.

1. Using the Handset for reception measurement

Before starting the deployment measuring make sure the handset is properly charged. Identify the
MAC address of the base station to which you want to measure. As well manually read the MAC
address on the base station labels on the back side for the device to be used with the handset. The
handset does not need to be (pre‐)registered to a particular base.
1. Press "Menu" followed by the keys: *47* to get the handset into find bases menu.
Note: Stay close to the base station to start the search.
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