Base-station Lightning Protection Solution

As the coverage of Telecommunication virtually reaches all humans' land, many base stations
are placed under constantly bad weather conditions, especially ones in rural areas. Most of base stations
there are located on top of mountains, where power lines run overhead and the grounding systems are
not properly designed, making it easy to suffer from damages caused by direct strike, transient surge
and operational over-voltage. The most important base station equipments are composed of highly
integrated microelectronics components with high read/write speed, low voltage and low power
consumption. Since they are extremely sensitive to EM interferences, it is important to have thorough
lightning and surge protection in order to avoid heavy loss. In fact, the communication interruption
problem due to equipment damage caused by lightning strikes has always troubled mobile operators in
recent years. Therefore, the LEMP protection of base station must be considered with the entire picture
in mind, and designed from the perspective of the overall lightning protection solution.