Town Planning Report and Appendices - Cooroibah

2.3 The Fixed Wireless Network – Interdependencies

Although Fixed Wireless facilities are submitted to Council as standalone
developments from a planning perspective, they are highly interdependent. Each
Fixed Wireless facility is connected to another to form a chain of facilities that
link back to the fibre network. This is called the ‘transmission network’.

The transmission network requires line of sight from facility to facility until it
reaches the fibre network. The Fixed Wireless network will remain unconnected
without the transmission network and a break in this chain can have flow on
effects to multiple communities.

A typical Fixed Wireless facility will include three antennas mounted above the
surrounding area. Each antenna is designed to cover a set area to maximise
signal strength. These network antennas communicate to a small antenna
installed on the roof of each customer’s home or business.

The proposed Fixed Wireless facility at Cooroibah is a Transmission End Site and
has been designed to provide wireless broadband services to surrounding
premises in Cooroibah. The character of the Fixed Wireless network is visually
demonstrated through Figure 1 below.




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