Clim@Lan: A powerful artificial climate facility designed to test telecommunication equipments

Author

Nörtershäuser, D. ; Gautier, J. ; Le Masson, S.

Author_Institution

R&D Div., France Telecom, Lannion

fYear

2005

fDate

Sept. 2005

Firstpage

603

Lastpage

608

Abstract

To extend the supply of xDSL services, telecommunication operators have to put their active equipments in outdoor cabinets or underground enclosures. Those containers are submitted to solar heat flux and ambient temperatures. Performing thermal tests in real conditions (both in outdoor or underground cases) is not very easy because outside climatic conditions (wind, rain, temperature and solar radiation) cannot be controlled. Thus, France Telecom R&D division has developed a facility that allows unsteady simulation of France strongest summer conditions. Examples of experiments are shown for a typical underground enclosure and for an outdoor cabinet

Keywords

digital subscriber lines; telecommunication equipment testing; test facilities; Clim@Lan; France Telecom; R&D division; artificial climate facility; outdoor cabinets; outside climatic conditions; solar heat flux; telecommunication equipment; telecommunication operators; thermal testing; underground enclosures; xDSL services; Containers; Laboratories; Lamps; Performance evaluation; Research and development; Solar heating; Solar radiation; Telecommunications; Temperature; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications Conference, 2005. INTELEC '05. Twenty-Seventh International

Conference_Location

Berlin

Print_ISBN

978-3-8007-2905-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INTLEC.2005.335167

Filename

4134406