What are the advantages of placing the router and the antenna in one enclosure?
23.01.2024
What are the advantages of placing the router and the antenna in one enclosure?
Have you ever asked yourself why do they produce antennas, routers and then put them in one cover? What is the point? What advantages do you have from doing this? We will hopefully resolve all doubts connected with this topic.
The advantages
There are several reasons why routers and antennas are packed up together in one enclosure. We gathered all the information and divided it in some subsections.
Aesthetic reasons
Not only does the enclosure protect our devices, but it is also designed with much care and attention to detail. It allows us to produce a great looking, well-made enclosure, which will meet the visual requirements of the most demanding customers.
Not every router can be used outside
You can increase the network performance by putting router outside the house, but hardly any router is able to work outdoors. But as we have manufactured our enclosures, now it’s possible! Our cases are produced of high-quality materials, are reliable and can endure in any weather conditions. IP67 – that is the ingress protection code with which our products are classified.
Routers inside our products use PoE
You probably think that if you e.g. put the router and antenna in one enclosure and then mount it on the rooftop (or even higher), you will have to provide router power and Ethernet cable. Nothing could be further from the truth. Routers in our outdoor antennas support passive PoE (Power over Ethernet), which allows to transmit power as well as data in a single network cable.
Router and antenna are next to each other
The biggest benefit of router and antenna being next to each other is the reduction of cable. As we all know reducing the cable length reduces its loss. Due to putting router and antenna together, we are able to connect them with short cables. This, in turn, allows us to enhance the signal received, at the same time minimizing its loss. The consequences of this are: throughput increase and more efficient connection.
Antenna is perfectly matched with the router
While putting antenna and router in one cover we need to match some parameters for them to work perfectly. This is why, when you buy an integrated solution like ours, you can be certain that every component will work with one another. You don’t have to match those parameters on your own, when there is a probability of making a mistake (e.g. matching the frequency or cable impedance).
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