Bringing cellular to mixed-use spaces

Challenge

The company collaborates with clinicians and researchers to develop technologies that will ultimately improve patients’ quality of life. Infrastructure services are the backbone for reliable communication that ultimately leads to faster time to market for life-saving products. One of the company’s locations is a large industrial operation, with a mix of offices and warehouses housed in five different buildings joined by walkways. The company’s carrier transitions its service from 3G to LTE, and antennas are repositioned by 20 degrees. This results in coverage holes in three office areas. The local infrastructure cannot support the carrier’s microcell solution, so the carrier presents Brad with a costly, $20,000 circuit to circumvent this. Metrocells are not an option either, with a price tag of $5,000 for only a portion of each building and a six-month delivery wait time. In healthcare, time is of the essence. Brad needs to bridge the coverage hole quickly and affordably so that the company can continue its life-altering work—uninterrupted.