Evolium 9100 BTS Product Description

9100 Base Station Product description

2. MAIN PRINCIPLES 2.1 Overall architecture The 9100 Base Station is based on a three-level modular architecture, consisting of: - Antenna coupling level, - Transceiver (TRX) level, - Base station Control Function (BCF) level, for which a reduced set of very highly integrated modules was developed. The information flow between the Air interface and the A-bis interface is presented below. Air interface

Antenna network stage

Antenna network stage

ANC or ANB (note)

ANC

Antenna coupling level Combiner stage (ANY)

TRX level

TRX

TRX

TRX

TRX

TRX

TRX

TRX

TRX

Combiner stage (ANY)

TRX

TRX

TRX

TRX

Station unit module

BCF level

Abis interface

Abbreviations BCF

Base station Control Function

TRX

Transceiver

Figure 1: Overall 9100 Base Station architecture

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File PDBTS3ES.DOC v 2

Reference 3DC 21083 0001 TQZZA

Date 14/05/2008

Edition 28

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