Boosting cell signals indoors

Wireless Alert NetworkWorld.com | Wireless & Mobile Research Center | Update Your Profile Boosting cell signals indoors By Joanie Wexler An accepted IT best practice is to upgrade cabling when a property is already undergoing renovation. This way, someone else's budget pays for cracking open walls and ceilings and providing the exposed access needed by IT operations staff. The historic Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.V., recently took this approach to upgrading its indoor cellular coverage with a multi-carrier distributed antenna system (DAS). Read full story Joanie Wexler is an independent networking technology writer/editor in California's Silicon Valley who has spent most of her career analyzing trends and news in the computer networking industry. She welcomes your comments on the articles published in this newsletter, as well as your ideas for future article topics. Reach her at joanie@jwexler.com. 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