TELECOM COMMUNICATION STRUCTURES

Sankara Ganesh Dhoopam

Abstract: The Indian tower industry has witnessed many key changes in the past few years from basic calling services to data driven services. Ongoing digital revolution, Indian government thrust on digital India and smart cities mission becomes essential to setup a robust telecom infrastructure capable of handling the surging amount of data traffic. As per government report, the mobile sector’s contribution to GDP will increase to 8.2 percent by 2020 from 6.5 percent at present. Given the hypercompetitive market situation and the explosive data demand, the relevance of network infrastructure is only going to increase despite the challenges. Telecom companies current focus associated to tower infrastructure is mainly on optimization by keeping low cost tower structure, compact sites, energy savings and utilization of existing towers to the peak capacity by with or without strengthening. Also equal focus on building innovative aesthetic structures and street smart infrastructures like street light poles, smart cells for speeding up the network capabilities suitable to 4G/5G networks and combined with other society needs like video surveillance, weather monitoring sensors, advertisement hoardings and other local traffic signal requirements.

Keywords: Telecom tower, Tubular tower, Tower sharing, Tower strengthening, Renewable energy, Full scale tower testing, Wind loads, Colocation, Appurtenances, GSM antenna, Microwave antenna, Angular tower, optimisation etc,.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2018.0707027