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Life Bank coverage requirements
• the coverage areas served by the three systems overlap, but you
minimized the number of overlapping cells
• each call that comes into Life Bank searches for the portable on one
system
• the three Meridian Companion systems use different system names
• three systems is the smallest number of Meridian Companion systems
required to serve the site
• all of the users do not need to go everywhere
• you kept all of the users in the same area on the same system, except on
the twenty-eighth floor where the cafeteria and the lounge are
• you grouped the cells of each system together in the building, but each
system has two cells serving the twenty-eighth floor, as shown in
Figure 34
Figure 34 : Life Bank, 28th floor
28th floor
system 1
cell center
High portable count/high cell count problem
Highgrade Oil has a refinery with 760 employees, 650 of whom work in the
refinery doing routine maintenance, emergency maintenance, tests and new
construction. Usually, you cannot reach these employees until they come in for
break, lunch, prearranged meetings or the end of the work day.
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28th floor
system 2
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28th floor
system 3