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Ericsson Tower Tube
Ericsson has redefined the telecommunications landscape with its cutting-edge Tower Tube. The breakthrough design employs innovative architecture and construction techniques that improve energy efficiency and reduce operator costs, while offering an aesthetically pleasing design.
Innovative design
The Tower Tube’s innovative design and construction ensures energy efficiency, helping protect the environment while reducing operator costs. The pioneering design is aesthetically pleasing and employs colored finishes adaptable to any landscape, improving public acceptance of site locations.
The innovative design draws on world-renowned Scandinavian design. It represents a radical departure from conventional lattice or tubular steel structures, and helps win public acceptance, smoothing the way for operators to deploy new sites.
Ericsson’s Tower Tube has won the Technology Design category of the 2008 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards. Read about the reward, under "Technology Design" in the online version of Wall Street Journal.
Space efficient
The Tower Tube provides operators with significant cost benefits. For example, the modular concrete construction allows rapid and cost-effective deployment. Feeders are no longer required. All equipment is safely encapsulated at the top of the tower so very low feeder loss is experienced, increasing the network’s coverage and capacity. It also reduces the need for cooling, thereby boosting energy efficiency and simultaneously reducing operator running costs.
Equipment is fully secure inside the tower and sheltered against the elements. This means indoor equipment can be used and antennas are protected by a weatherproof enclosure. The concrete shell also protects equipment from vandalism and lightning strikes.
More cost efficient than a traditional site
The reduced energy expenditure over the lifetime of the site means that the environmental impact of a Tower Tube is significantly less than a traditional site.
The concrete used in the construction employs post-tension reinforcement technology. This allows for thin but robust walls to be constructed, substantially lowering the amount of carbon dioxide in the manufacturing process and further minimizing overall environmental impacts.
Radio base stations (RBS) are enclosed within the tower. They are initially installed at the bottom of the tower and then raised to the top by an elevator. By positioning a RBS at height, there is very low feeder loss, which allows improved network coverage and capacity.
Radio base stations are initially installed at the bottom of the tower and then raised to the top by an elevator.
Learn more about the Ericsson Tower Tube
The Ericsson Tower Tube is an innovative construction that houses base stations and antennas, fully encapsulating them in an aesthetic, energy-efficient and low environmental impact tower. It employs cutting-edge design and building materials, and can be built in a variety of sizes and colors that make it a natural fit for any landscape.
The tower from inside
The Tower Tube replaces conventional telecommunication sites with a sleek, architecturally designed, aesthetically pleasing tower. It can be regarded as a feature of any landscape.
It employs modular concrete construction that allows the structure to be deployed quickly and easily. The tower can be erected in a variety of heights. The exterior’s color can also be adapted to help it fit into rural or urban settings, and win public acceptance for a new site.
The tower is a self-contained site. It safely houses all equipment within its slim design (about 5m in diameter), reducing the need for more land.
The radome
The tower’s concrete exterior protects equipment effectively from the elements and provides a stable internal environment. Indoor equipment can be used and antennas are protected by a radome, or weatherproof enclosure. The robust concrete membrane provides additional protection from vandalism and lightning.
Radio base stations (RBS) are enclosed within the tower. They are initially installed at the bottom of the tower and then raised to the top by an elevator. By positioning a RBS at height, there is very low feeder loss, which allows improved network coverage and capacity.
