They are possibly the most visible part of a mobile network, yet they’re sometimes overlooked. With the ever-growing need to get more from spectrum assets, operators are likely to make them a much more prominent part of their capacity upgrade plans. We are, of course, talking about antennas and specifically the pending need for high-performance active antennas.
In the drive to increase throughput, the focus has been mainly on deploying more carrier aggregation and higher modulation schemes to use spectrum more effectively. The next step is to target the benefits that active antennas offer.
