Apexpro Towers, Antennas And Transmitters; Admit/Ttx Master; Cdt-Lan Installations; Apexpro Receiver Configuration (Apexpro Channelized Telemetry) - GE ApexPro Service Manual

Equipment overview

ApexPro towers, antennas and transmitters

Admit/TTX master

CDT-LAN installations

ApexPro receiver configuration (ApexPro channelized telemetry)

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Channelized ApexPro telemetry installations can have more than one ApexPro tower
or antenna system.
NOTE
Your specific installation may differ depending upon ApexPro Telemetry System
type.
In such installations, ApexPro towers are not limited to a specific antenna, but will
receive data from transmitters through any antenna in the installation and associate
the data with the proper receiver. This allows for maximum patient mobility within
the installation.
Each Unity/MC network supporting telemetry has one master tower. An ApexPro
tower will always be the master tower even on networks having both ApexPro and
CDT-LAN towers. The ApexPro tower with the highest IP address on the Unity/MC
network will be the master tower.
The master tower has two specific duties:
It receives all telemetry patient admit requests and directs them to appropriate
towers. This is referred to at the admit master function.
It maintains a list of all in-use transmitter numbers, so that patient admissions can
be prevented from using an already-allocated transmitter. This is referred to as
the TTX master function.
CDT-LAN is a telemetry system that precedes the ApexPro Telemetry System.
ApexPro is designed to allow for mixed networks including CDT-LAN running
v6D software only.
CDT-LAN v6D is compatible with CIC Pro v4.0.7 and above.
Unlike CDT-LAN, ApexPro systems do not assign specific receivers to specific
units. Receivers in a tower can be generically configured to accept admits from any
unit. This provides certain amount of receiver assignment flexibility and control, but
it is important to understand the underlying mechanism in order to take full advantage
of it.
An ApexPro tower can contain a pool of up to 16 receivers. Any number of these
receivers from this pool can be reserved to only accept admits from specific units.
Understand that this does not assign specific receiver slots. It assigns a quantity of
them. When an admit occurs, any available receiver from the pool is used:
If the tower is configured to accept the admit from the unit.
If the unit has not used up its allotted number of reserved receivers.
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