Cellular coverage for life-critical environments
Every moment in a hospital depends on communication that connects the first time. Clinicians have to reach each other without delay; alarms, telemetry and code calls have to move reliably; patients and families expect to stay in touch. Almost all of it travels on personal phones, on carriers the hospital does not run — inside a building that stops a cellular signal at the door.
ANDREW® brings the mobile operators’ networks inside and distributes them across shielded imaging suites and radiology, operating rooms and procedural suites, below-grade areas, tunnels and service corridors, stairwells, elevators and parking structures, and older wings where legacy construction blocks the signal. Whether the answer is a building-wide distributed antenna system (DAS), targeted small cells or both, ANDREW designs it as a true neutral-host foundation — energy-efficient and ready to scale.
Challenges and opportunities
Reliable, room-to-room cellular coverage is now as essential in clinical settings as oxygen, power and medical gas. This is where in-building cellular coverage matters most.
Care delivery
Modern clinical environments depend on high bandwidth, low latency and reliable handoffs — delivered with consistent mobility and real-time performance across the entire facility:
Patient experience
Hospitals rely on mobility and digital tools to reduce friction for patients and families — reliable connectivity shortens waits, reduces confusion and improves overall satisfaction scores:
Safety & security
A growing ecosystem of mobile and connected systems depends on end-to-end coverage, and these systems must function everywhere — including shielded suites, below-grade areas and back-of-house spaces:
Deployments
Critical care units
Surgical and procedural suites
Academic medical centers and teaching hospitals
Children’s hospitals and pediatric specialty centers
Community and regional hospitals
Large, multi-building campus environments
The ANDREW advantage
ANDREW all-digital solutions enable 4G/5G connectivity across care environments worldwide — from a single clinic to a multi-building medical campus.
Our comprehensive offering for healthcare facilities with complex connectivity needs spans the ERA® DAS platform, ONECELL® in-building small cells and expert design and support.
Partnering with ANDREW means wireless technology built for long-term simplicity, efficiency and sustainability — through 5G and beyond.
Featured solutions
ANDREW brings reliable 4G/5G inside with DAS and small cells, adding facility-wide coverage and capacity for data-intensive clinical operations.
ANDREW indoor solutions deliver the reliability and redundancy security teams and first responders need in an emergency.
Featured resources
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See how ANDREW delivers reliable, life-critical 4G/5G coverage across hospitals and medical campuses.
Frequently asked questions
Answers about indoor signal, DAS, small cells, carriers, Wi-Fi and hard-to-reach clinical areas.
The macro network was built to cover ground, not to get through it. Hospitals are among the hardest buildings on earth for cellular — dense concrete, steel, lead-lined imaging walls, low-emissivity glass and whole floors below grade. A strong signal at the entrance can be nothing by the time it reaches a patient room in the core, and adding towers outside doesn’t fix it, because the building is the obstacle. In-building wireless brings the operators’ networks inside and distributes them where people actually are.
A DAS distributes every operator’s network across a large or complex building on one shared system; a small cell adds focused cellular capacity in a specific area. ANDREW offers both — the ERA® DAS platform and ONECELL® in-building small cells — and helps match the right approach, or a combination, to your hospital or medical campus.
Yes. ANDREW’s platform is one infrastructure, approved by global operators, carrying public cellular, private networks and public safety from pre-4G through 5G.
Yes — they do different jobs. Wi-Fi carries the clinical network the hospital owns and controls — workstations, infusion pumps, monitors. A DAS or small cell brings the operators’ cellular networks to everyone else — clinicians, patients, families and visiting specialists on any carrier — and only cellular carries E911 that knows where the caller actually is rather than where the account is registered, Wireless Emergency Alerts to every device in the building and public-safety communications.
Yes — those are exactly the spaces this is engineered for. The system places antennas where clinicians and patients actually are, including ORs, radiology, below-grade departments and service corridors.
Proven. ANDREW’s all-digital DAS is operating at scale today on more than a decade of digital deployments, and is first to connect all three major U.S. operators, across every major RAN vendor, digitally on one DAS — deployed at scale, not promised on a roadmap.
Let’s discuss how ANDREW can help get you there.
