Multi-Dwelling Units (MDUs)
One of the most common use cases for Pivotal Turnkey is directing mmWave coverage from typically underutilized gNBs to nearby Multi-Dwelling Units (MDUs).
Pivotal’s network planning tool WaveScape® evaluates the topography of targeted MDUs and highlights good candidates for mmWave coverage before engineers and surveyors even put boots on the ground. It can also recommended locations for mounting Pivots to provide the most efficient mmWave coverage.
Pivot is light and small, which allows for a variety of mounting options, but the typical mounting locations are existing utility poles or streetlights. From here, Pivots can redirect the existing beam from the gNB to cover faces of the building that do not have line of sight and light up all the homes along that side.
MDUs come with certain challenges — such as foliage from nearby trees or low-E glass — but Pivot's versatility allows it to shine here as well. Because Pivot can be mounted in a variety of locations, a path around such obstructions can be usually be utilized. Pivotal engineers, through extensive testing, have found that low-E glass as an mmWave blocker is a myth.
Pivotal's experience in designing and performing field surveys for network enhancements, as well as the short permitting phase and quick installation make Turnkey an ideal tool for activating high speed mmWave 5G for MDUs.