Nine distinct RF systems on one fibre-fed antenna infrastructure: AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint across cellular, PCS, AWS and 700 MHz LTE bands, alongside public safety 700 MHz and 800 MHz land mobile radio and building-wide Wi-Fi, across roughly 130 serving antennas over seven floors, with dedicated boosters for the public safety bands and a design specification written to per-band signal thresholds across 95% of the facility.
Each carrier supplied its own donor and base station equipment, so the work included negotiating four independent commercial parties and a public safety agency onto a single shared plant. Public safety in-building coverage is the requirement that cannot be traded away to make the others fit.
The original build ran on a CommScope ION-B fibre platform. The refresh replaced it with a JMA Wireless platform designed in iBwave, extending coverage from a single building to a three-building downtown campus — the courthouse, the Ed Ball building and the Yates building — off one head end, moving the carrier estate to all-LTE, adding AWS, 2.3 GHz WCS and 2.6 GHz spectrum, sectorising into three sectors for capacity rather than coverage alone, and carrying public safety 800 MHz forward as digital P25.
Outcome
Public safety and commercial coverage on one shared plant, extended from a single building to a three-building campus off one head end.