Newmar Bulk Feed Distribution System
Are You Experiencing Power Drops
with Long Tower Cable Runs?
The Bulk Feed Distribution System from Newmar is an innovative solution that solves the challenge of efficiently distributing DC power on telecom towers. Newmar’s approach provides a surge suppression solution for Mission-Critical Telecom and power systems, offering both smart remote management, modular protection and innovative surge suppression that enhances the overall system’s reliability.
Can’t You Simply Add More Power
Boosters to the Tower?
Solving the Problem
As DC power is transmitted up a telecom tower, voltage loss increases, reducing performance at the top where antennas and RRUs (Remote Radio Units) operate.
Conventional solutions use DC trunk cables and boosters, but:
- Significant voltage drops still occur, especially on long cable runs.
- Boosters add complexity, installation and material cost, and create more points of potential failure.
- Maintaining spares and providing support requires additional resources.
- Many tower sites are remote or difficult to access.
Newmar’s New Comprehensive Solution
Newmar’s New Bulk Feed Distribution System safely and efficiently distributes DC power up a telecom tower and minimizes the voltage drop to only 2.5V across an average 60-meter cable run. The reduction of the voltage drop is a result of changing the wire from copper to aluminum and increasing the wire gauge.
This provides an end-to-end bulk-feed tower distribution system that ensures steady and reliable power for all RRUs and equipment at the top of the tower, with smart remote management, modular protection, and industry-leading surge suppression all in a rugged, fully-certified enclosure.
Newmar’s New Bulk Feed Distribution System technology is important to Mission-Critical Telecoms, as they are presently experiencing DC power losses in the range of 4x to 10x over an average cable run with even higher losses anticipated as they load more RRUs on existing tower infrastructure. Depending upon the provider, the result of these power drops can translate into significant lost revenue over the course of the year.
With the anticipation of 6G, the next generation of wireless technology, and its related power requirements, the concern of power degradation and lost revenue will only take on greater importance.
