Nearly 80% of all communication happens indoors. This is crucial information for businesses looking for success with operations and customer experience.
Unfortunately, most businesses rely upon WiFi and external network towers for their connectivity needs.
Results?
- Poor indoor communication
- WiFi overload and poor emergency response
- WiFi dead zones in the building where there’s zero connection
- Bad signal range from external towers because of obstruction
All these issues hurt businesses. Let’s see how DAS can help businesses grow.
What’s In-Building DAS?
First, let’s see what DAS is and how it works.
Basically, it’s a mechanism that brings network signals from external towers and brings it into your indoor spaces. See the picture below for your understanding.
Via this mechanism, network signals spread all across your business space. Even tight and close spaces like lifts or basements. With this, everyone on the premises can use 4G, 5G, and network calls at all times.
This is perfect for businesses with large operational spaces such as malls, hospital, commercial towers, and even businesses on remote venues.
Now, let’s see why your business needs DAS.
5 Reasons Why Your Business Needs In-Building DAS
Getting in-building DAS is forward-thinking and long-term planning for your business. Here are 5 reasons to have it installed:
Low Maintenance Required
Compared to WiFi, DAS is super low maintenance. With WiFi, you’d be required to replace and maintain routers often. Research shows that its life is anywhere between 2 to 3 years.
DAS on the other hand can last for decades with minimum maintenance. So, you can save a lot on maintenance costs. Practically, DAS keeps you online 24/7/365 while WiFi isn’t ever that reliable.
Wider Usage & Better Customer Experience
Everyone has a handheld device in America these days. When you only have WiFi as a connectivity option, you force people to take an action that they’d be reluctant to. Wireless Internet for businesses – DAS – ensures that your customers have internet options.
When DAS is available, most people won’t feel a need for other connections.
Many businesses run DAS simultaneously with WiFi only to reduce their WiFi packages or get it out completely after a while.
Quick stat – 40%+ people feel unsafe connecting to public WiFis because of security reasons.
No Dead Zones
DAS spreads network signals across every corner of the building. Even in basements.
So, there’s no patch on the indoor space that’d be void of signals. That’s one of the major WiFi problems that DAS solves. With WiFi, you can’t expect consistency. There are areas of strong signal strength and areas where it’s nonexistent.
That can cause interruptions with browsing, drop calls, and overall reduce the internet experience. DAS is one wireless internet solution for businesses that’s highly reliable and consistent.
Better Business Move
Internet inefficiencies can really hurt the profit numbers for businesses.
When your business is DAS-powered, you’ll never go offline again. Internet will never be a problem that slows down your operations. Whether you operate online or have a physical space, your visitors, customers, and even staff members will be thankful they aren’t bothered by poor internet.
Better Emergency Responses
This is one area that’s often neglected – because businesses don’t often take emergencies into account. But, when it hits, it can bring some regretful moments.
As mentioned, challenges with WiFi don’t make it a suitable medium for emergency responses.
DAS is a reliable option for emergency responses. This is true for any sort of emergency be it a natural disaster, a terror attack, or even a personal emergency.
Having DAS ensures that you’re always connected and don’t have to face losses because of poor signals. Or you couldn’t connect to WiFi.
Bonus Point – It’s Way Faster
DAS systems are designed to provide uniform and strong cellular signals throughout a building or area. They distribute the signal from a central source through multiple antennas, ensuring consistent coverage.
WiFi typically has a smaller range, and users moving between different access points may experience interruptions or slower connections.
Because DAS uses cellular technology, which is designed for high throughput and wide coverage, it can often provide faster data speeds compared to WiFi, especially in densely populated areas.
Besides security, speed was one reason why Airbus decided to implement 5G network for its France workspace and replace WiFi there.
Conclusion
DAS is a powerful complement and replacement for WiFi systems. It offers better security, speed, and connectivity in all aspects. Businesses are already experimenting a hybrid of WiFi and DAS and several have replaced their WiFi systems completely.
Even businesses with small areas of operations are exploring small-cell solutions.
If you are looking to implement wireless internet solutions that benefit the business, talk to a CED Systems expert right now. We offer a free consultation call. Book here ⬇️