CASE STUDY NEW YORK CITY SUBWAY: If you can make it there, you’ll make it anywhere. Enabling wireless coverage is not always as easy as it may seem. Putting up a tower in an open eld is one thing, but providing coverage in areas and situations having harsh conditions and challenging spaces require innovative solutions from innovative communications manufacturers. SOLiD is one of those companies.

8 Klein Road Suite  Plano, TX   solid.com 888. . [email protected] QUICK FACTS: As a global provider of Distributed using,” Collado New York City Subway: Antenna Systems (DAS), Optical explained. “There World’s largest by number Network Transport and Passive is limited space, so of stations () Optical LAN solutions, SOLiD takes infrastructure has . billion riders each year areas that may have once not been to be sized and . million riders each suited for wireless coverage and finds placed accordingly weekday a way to make it work. This was for that environ- recently proven when SOLiD DAS ment.” Seoul Metropolitan Subway: equipment was selected by Transit World’s longest system by It was these length (.km) Wireless to support delivery of circumstances wireless coverage throughout one of World’s second largest by under which number of stations the world’s busiest transportation Transit Wireless systems - the New York City subway was tasked to . billion riders each year system. A subsidiary of Broadcast identify a solution . million riders each Australia, Transit Wireless owns and that could survive weekday operates the subway station wireless underground in communications networks and acts as these harsh conditions, support all signifies the enclosure is resistant to a neutral host for extending wireless carrier networks and be approved by dust, water and corrosion so the coverage throughout the lines. The the New York City transit authority. electronics inside the box are project included 277 subway stations protected. This differentiator further that serve 1.6 billion riders each year. Why SOLiD? solidified the decision for Transit This averages out to 5.3 million riders GLOBAL EXPERIENCE Wireless. on weekdays, 3 million riders on One of the key reasons that SOLiD Saturdays and 2.4 million riders on was chosen for this undertaking was What’s Next? Sundays. because of their previous experience HIGHER POWER with a comparable deployment. SOLiD is continuing to advance Why is this deal substantial? SOLiD completed a similar DAS innovative solutions to pragmatically Building out a DAS in any venue project for the Seoul Metropolitan address the objective to enable has its challenges, but the difficulty of Subway in South Korea. That project wireless communications throughout doing so in an underground subway took four years to complete and subway tunnels. Unlike train system is unparalleled. Mike Collado, offered similar challenges to that in platforms, there is often little-to-no- director of marketing at SOLiD, New York City. The Seoul subway, room for running any extra infrastruc- explained that the New York City however, was constructed more ture. Besides, subway trains typically subway system is particularly daunt- recently, making the project a bit keep running 24 hours per day. ing because it is very old and poses easier to manage. Having completed multiple constraints. WIDER VERTICAL REACH a DAS project of similar scale in Seoul Because of the sheer size of the “The New York City subway successfully assured the folks at New York City subway system, the system operates 24 hours per day, Transit Wireless that they were project is slated to be completed over 365 days per year and that means selecting not only a qualified, but an a five-year period. But that doesn’t working in an environment under- experienced solutions partner. mean SOLiD hasn’t been busy thus ground that people are constantly “Transit Wireless is building one of far. In fact, more than 30 stations are the most expansive DAS networks in in progress with completion expected the world,” said Transit Wireless CEO, in the next few months including the William A. Bayne, Jr. “SOLiD’s multiple platforms that comprise the extensive subway experience in South Times Square and Columbus Circle Korea and ability to rapidly customize stations. products and applications make the To be sure, the scale and harsh company ideally-suited to support our subterranean environment make this mission to enable state-of-the-art one of the most challenging DAS wireless coverage to all underground projects in the world. Being selected subway stations in New York City.” is a testament of SOLiD’s pedigree PUBLIC-SAFETY RUGGEDIZED STANDARDS within the DAS market which is why SOLiD also holds a unique place the company’s solutions are similarly in the marketplace as it innovated its being deployed at marquee projects DAS to support commercial cellular within other verticals such as sports and public-safety including two-way venues, hospitals, colleges/universities, radio service on the same converged hotels, corporate headquarters and platform. In order to be public-safety more. approved, there are certain guidelines As the song says about New York... that must be met. SOLiD adopted the If you can make it there, you’ll make National Electrical Manufacturers it anywhere! Association’s 4 X standard which