Sealed enclosures put routers outside with their antennas

Antenna maker Taoglas has started manufacturing enclosures that include antennas.

Taoglas-Thunder-Series-integrated-antenna-enclosures

Called the Thunder series, the enclosures allow a router to be mounted outdoors, right next to the antenna “significantly reducing the need for long RF cables – cutting tens of meters per deployment – minimising signal loss”, according to the company.

There are 14 ABS enclosures covering seven routers from Digi, Ericsson and Semtech with directional or omni-directional options.

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Operation is across 600MHz to 6GHz frequency range, supporting 5G, 4G, Wi-Fi, GNSS and Bluetooth. Sealing is to IP67.

“This coverage enables support for low-band cellular, mid-band 5G and Wi-Fi 6/6E,” said Taoglas, adding that the boxes are “being deployed in number plate recognition systems, powered directly from streetlight dc infrastructure”.

Find the Thunder enclosure series on this Taogals web page

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