Install environment · Apartment building
GL-4xCEFH-RPF in a 16-unit MDU
Internet to every apartment over the coax already in the walls. One switch in the MDF; each tenant moves over when they sign up.
- Still on the CATV splitter 16
- Splitter outputs in use 0 / 64
- Coax ports lit 0 / 4
- Existing CATV coax
- ReadyLinks data over coax
- Fiber uplink
- PoE++ Cat6 to the rooftop radio
How the install works
Day 0: one visit to the MDF
The GL-4xCEFH-RPF and four empty 16-way splitters mount on the MDF backboard next to the cable TV splitter. Fiber goes into the SFP+ port, and each of the four coax ports feeds its own splitter. Nobody's service changes yet.
A tenant signs up
In the MDF, the technician moves that apartment's coax jumper from the CATV splitter to a ReadyLinks splitter. In the unit, an IPC-1CP-RPF client connects to the coax outlet. The coax in the walls stays where it is.
Grow one apartment at a time
Each sign-up is a few minutes of work in the MDF and the unit. The switch is already paid for, and with up to 16 apartments per coax port, one GL-4xCEFH-RPF covers all 16 apartments here with room to spare.
In the MDF
The GL-4xCEFH-RPF
A 4-port ReadyLink switch. Each coax port feeds its own 16-way splitter and can serve up to 16 apartments. The uplink is a 10G SFP+ fiber, or a 10G RJ45 port that powers a rooftop wireless radio over PoE++ (up to 90 W).
In the apartment
An IPC client on the coax outlet
The coax outlet in each apartment connects to an IPC-1CP-RPF, which turns the ReadyLink signal back into Ethernet on a 2.5GbE PoE++ port for the tenant's router or Wi-Fi access point. It is provisioned and monitored from the GL-4xCEFH-RPF in ReadyView, so the property can see every apartment that's online.
Its RL coax port is RPF-enabled: clients can power the GL-4xCEFH-RPF back over the same coax, so the switch in the MDF can run without its own power supply.
Representative install. The switch, client devices and rooftop radio are drawn larger than life so they read next to the building, with the splitters at about 30% of the switch's size, and each ReadyLinks splitter is shown serving one floor. Actual splitter layout, cable runs and the number of apartments per port depend on the building's coax plant.