Success Case
Connected Street Infrastructure In London: Leading the way in connecting Small Cell assets to dark fibre
UK
With around 180,000 people living in 6.3 square miles, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham has a highly concentrated demand for telecoms connectivity. Cellnex holds the concession to use the borough’s street assets for telecommunications purposes. We worked closely with Hammersmith and Fulham to select street light column locations that would deliver the greatest benefit in the area.
Key features of this project:
- Shared infrastructure – enables lower costs and faster deployment. Cabinets for up to four MNO small cells with power provided.
- Built-in architectural resilience – in the unlikely event of a fibre break, half the sites would remain operational.
- Dark fibre backhaul network – to 2 Points of Interconnect (PoI) at BT exchanges.
- Shared infrastructure – Omni or directional antenna with feeder system serving lamp columns. Cabinet space for MNO Network Termination Equipment.
- Cellnex Service Desk – incident management, ticket raising andresolution tracking.
- Easy ground level access – for equipment installation and maintenance.
- Flexibility – to support backhaul connection of other site solutions
Challenges
In the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, ultra-fast mobile connectvity is not a ‘nice to have’.
Solution
We brought small cells and dark fibre together to deliver a truly connected future.