Advanced Mobile Phone Service: Cell-Site Hardware

Abstract

The hardware facilities of the amps cell site connect the mobile radio customer to the land telephone network and perform actions necessary for rf radiation, reception, and distribution; voice and data communications and processing; equipment testing, control, and reconfiguration; and call setup, supervision, and termination. Cell-site operational control is achieved partially through wired logic and partially through programmable controllers. This paper describes the cell-site functional groups, their physical characteristics and design, and the ways they interface with the rest of the amps system.