With ever-higher demand for capacity, operators and neutral hosts struggle to locate antennas and equipment in crowded urban, suburban, protected rural areas and small communities. The dense environment is especially challenging because 5G signals need to be close to the user.

End users are demanding ever-greater levels of coverage and capacity, and operators must find ways to deploy new cell sites in areas already occupied by other equipment, signals and carriers. As a result, the need for densification has increased, driven by the need for greater capacity close to the end user, particularly for 5G deployment.

Densification is the process of locating increasing amounts of equipment and more signals in a given environment. Streetworks Solutions aid with densification because they hide in plain sight, resolving a lack of physical space and overcoming zoning rules restricting additional visible equipment.

Planning departments often reject requests to install equipment that would reduce a city’s or rural environment’s visual appeal. They don’t want a tall lattice tower in the middle of a busy urban or residential area. In some cases, there may be no physical space available.

Streetworks Solutions are attractive to communities because they add capacity but very little if any, visible infrastructure. For example, when we replace a traditional light pole with a pole that contains a stack of up to four of our Tri-Sector antennas and the light, the visual impact is the same, but now, four operators or neutral hosts have greatly expanded capacity in the area.

You don’t need to collect all the components yourself. Alpha Wireless offers a comprehensive Streetworks Solutions portfolio that contains turnkey hardware solutions to help you overcome deployment challenges and meet all your streetworks equipment needs.