Pre-Installation - Cisco BWX 8305 Installation And Commissioning Manual

Pre-installation

5.1 Personnel & Tools
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The BWX 8305 Basestation (BS) equipment installation itself normally takes 1-2 people only 2 days
However, prior to installing the equipment a number of planning, acquisition, and other preparation
activities take place. If these tasks are not completed before the installers show up to begin installing,
then the deployment may take longer than 2 days. The planning tasks are not detailed in this guide, but
information or examples for many of them are referenced and located in the appendices.
5.2 Project Plan
Cisco provides several options to customers for the work to be done in preparing a site for operation.
The customer may have their own installation personnel, or they may hire Cisco or one of its authorized
service partners to perform the installation. A project plan document that lays out the work to be done,
the objectives of the project, the schedule, the resources required to complete it, and other information
pertinent to the deployment needs to be developed.
5.3 RF Coverage Prediction Map
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As part of determining which BS equipment is needed and where to place the equipment for a successful
deployment, an RF Engineer (customer's, Cisco's, or service partner's) will go through the process of
studying the RF environment of the candidate sites that the Service Provider has identified. The RF
Engineer takes readings and analyzes each site in order to predict what range of coverage may be
expected. Coverage predictions take into account Basestation performance capabilities and the Service
Provider's marketing objectives. An example is shown in
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1. All I&C tasks can be completed by 1 person, but 2 may be desired during commissioning - one to drive and
one to run the tests using a laptop computer.
OL-16336-02
Appendix B, "Cisco Recommended Tools"
Appendix C, "RF Coverage Prediction Map Example"
RF Sales Guide P/N: OL-16330-01
WiMAX RF Planning Guide P/N: OL-16333-02
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Appendix C, "RF Coverage Prediction Map
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