This detailed product description introduces a high-performance, dual-band waterproof antenna specifically engineered for comprehensive cellular, IoT, and M2M applications. Covering the critical low-band (698–960 MHz) and mid-band (1710–2700 MHz) frequencies, this antenna offers universal compatibility with 4G LTE, 3G, and emerging 5G technologies across major global carriers. Featuring a compact, durable, and waterproof design with a standard SMA Male connector, it is ideal for seamless integration into various devices and fixed wireless access solutions.
Key Technical Specifications and Universal Compatibility
This antenna is designed to capture and transmit signals across the two most crucial spectrum blocks for modern mobile and wide-area data communication, ensuring exceptional performance where a single, multi-functional unit is required.
Comprehensive Dual-Band Frequency Coverage
The antenna’s design ensures robust operation across two distinct, wide frequency windows, maximizing its utility and ensuring future-proofing:
Low-Band (698–960 MHz): This range includes all major global 4G LTE low-band frequencies, such as the US LTE Band 12/17 (700 MHz), European LTE Band 20 (800 MHz), and the foundational 900 MHz GSM/3G bands. The low frequency provides superior propagation, range, and building penetration, making it essential for extending coverage to rural areas and deep indoors.
Mid-Band (1710–2700 MHz): This range covers key global mid-band capacity spectrums, including LTE Band 4 (AWS), Band 3 (DCS/1800 MHz), and the crucial high-capacity Band 7 (2600 MHz). These frequencies are responsible for delivering the high data rates and throughput necessary for demanding modern applications.
By combining these two ranges, the antenna ensures optimal performance by enabling devices to utilize the best available signal—low-band for coverage or mid-band for speed—through carrier aggregation or automatic band switching.
High Efficiency and Radiation Pattern
While often designed to be omnidirectional or wide-coverage (depending on the specific form factor, like a puck, whip, or blade), the antenna is engineered for high electrical efficiency across both broad frequency bands. This high efficiency ensures minimal power is wasted as heat, maximizing the power delivered to the antenna's radiating element. For fixed wireless applications, it typically offers sufficient gain (e.g., 3 dBi to 5 dBi) to provide reliable connectivity to the nearest cell tower over a wide area. Its radiation pattern is optimized for versatility, allowing it to be effective whether mounted on a vehicle, a meter box, or an outdoor enclosure.
Waterproof Construction and SMA Male Connector
The antenna is housed in a durable, often UV-resistant casing (e.g., ABS or polycarbonate) and sealed to be waterproof (typically meeting an IP rating like IP67 or IP68). This robust construction ensures long-term reliability and survival in harsh outdoor or challenging industrial environments exposed to rain, humidity, dust, and temperature extremes.
The standard SMA Male connector is utilized for a secure, threaded connection to the host device (such as an industrial router, gateway, or modem). The SMA connector is compact, mechanically secure, and electrically sound for the targeted frequencies, making it the preferred choice for connecting to smaller IoT and M2M devices.
Usage Scenarios: M2M, IoT, and Mobile Data
The versatility and durability of this dual-band antenna make it a perfect fit for a wide range of mission-critical communication applications that require continuous, reliable wireless data connectivity.
Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) and IoT Gateways
This antenna is the ideal external connection for industrial and commercial FWA routers and IoT gateways. Deployed on the exterior of a remote office, home, or commercial structure, it ensures the indoor modem can simultaneously access both the long-range 700/800 MHz bands and the high-capacity 1700–2700 MHz bands. This is crucial for applications like:
Remote POS (Point-of-Sale) Systems: Providing reliable cellular redundancy for retail locations.
Security and Surveillance: Supplying consistent data links for remote video streams.
Temporary Office Setup: Quickly establishing high-speed internet in new or temporary workspaces.
Vehicle and Fleet Management
The waterproof and multi-band nature makes this antenna perfect for mounting on vehicles, buses, trucks, and emergency response fleets. When connected to a cellular router, it provides:
Mobile Hotspots: Reliable internet access for passengers or crew.
Telematics and GPS Tracking: Continuous, high-availability data links for real-time location and diagnostics data transmission.
Emergency Communications: Robust connectivity across various cellular bands, increasing the chance of maintaining a signal regardless of the network or location.
Industrial and Utility Monitoring (M2M)
For Machine-to-Machine applications across large industrial landscapes, such as oil and gas pipelines, utility grids, or environmental monitoring stations, this antenna ensures communication continuity. It is used with remote terminal units (RTUs) and telemetry devices in sealed, outdoor enclosures. The low-band coverage (700–960 MHz) guarantees reliable reach even when deployed in deep field locations, while the mid-band capacity supports necessary firmware updates and large data transfers.
Disaster Recovery and Communication Backup
Due to its broad cellular compatibility and waterproof rating, this antenna is frequently integrated into communication kits used by emergency services. Its ability to access multiple frequency bands means it can quickly connect to whichever cellular network remains operational following a natural disaster or infrastructure failure, ensuring critical command and control communications are maintained.
The 698–960 MHz / 1710–2700 MHz Dual-Band Waterproof Antenna with SMA Male Connector is the dependable, all-in-one solution for bridging the gap between hardware and the high-speed, wide-area cellular networks of today and tomorrow.
