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Maximise coverage, network capacity and quality, while reducing costs – the ultimate aim of any network operator.

In order to increase productivity and efficiency, an integrated approach to planning and optimising radio networks is essential. The faster the network can be planned and optimised, the sooner that operator can monetize the network and gain – and retain – subscribers.

Data and voice services continue to evolve, and it is imperative that operators offer customers the latest technologies in a bid to minimise churn and improve customer satisfaction.

It goes without saying, that a poorly planned network can have huge negative financial implications.

ASSET™ is the world’s leading planning tool. OSS Observer places AIRCOM International™ as the global market leader in network engineering tools. We work with all of the world’s top 20 telcos, and over half of the world’s mobile operators.

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6.2

Addressing the business case – ASSET Integrated Financial Analysis Tool

ASSET 6.2 adds a new dimension to radio network planning and optimisation with an integrated financial analysis module, providing engineers with critical, business-oriented views of their network plans. ASSET’s financial analysis module focuses the network planning and optimisation efforts on getting the best return on investment and maximising revenue from existing or new networks.

Users can analyse business parameters such as captured revenue (additional or total), Net Income and Return on Investment using multiple sources as input – for example, revenue maps or service-specific ARPU.

‘What if’ scenarios can be performed quickly, and different plans compared based on business value.

HSPA evolution (HSPA+) planning support

ASSET 6.2 now supports HSPA Evolution (HSPA+) planning, as defined by 3GPP Release 7. This added planning ability represents an evolution (for both HSDPA and HSUPA) toward higher speeds and better spectrum utilisation, meaning ASSET is best placed to assist network operators moving to next generation networks.

Version history management

ASSET 6.2 allows the history of each object, including both project and configuration data, to be automatically stored. Users can not only track all changes made, but clearly see the identity of who has made changes and ‘roll back’ to a previous version of the object if they have appropriate security privileges.

Web-enabled map data (WFS client)

Continuing AIRCOM’s web-based integration approach, WEMD (Web Enabled Map Data) is new to ASSET 6.2. WEMD is a complementary extension to the WED (Web Enabled Data) feature, introduced in ASSET 6.1. WEMD brings seamless and effective integration of any web-based content directly onto the ENTERPRISE™ GIS.

Enhanced measurement support

Users can now load third party interference tables (ICDM) into ASSET. Data can be loaded into an empty interference matrix or combined with an existing one.

MYRIAD propagation model

ASSET 6.2 now offers the option of utilizing a newly integrated MYRIAD model – a sophisticated and versatile propagation model.

The MYRIAD model is able to automatically adapt itself to all cell sizes (micro, mini, small and macro cells), to all environments (dense urban, urban, suburban, mountainous, maritime, open), and to all systems in frequency ranges from 400MHz to 5GHz.

Enhanced frequency planning

Comprehensive support for measured interference matrices is a key development in the enhanced frequency planning of ASSET 6.2. Through its new IFA module, ASSET 6.2 delivers a powerful new way to visualise and interact with frequency plans, utilising user-defined criteria. This approach delivers faster, more accurate and higher quality plans by calculating and reporting the co-frequency allocation cost for different cells.

Advanced EV-DO service modelling and ACP support for CDMA2000

Support for CDMA2000 technology in ASSET ACP has been made available with all of the requisite productivity benefits for users. ASSET 6.2 provides additional flexibility in its EV-DO service model, with enhanced support for VoIP and RT services, giving more accurate coverage and capacity analysis that considers service prioritisation and different scheduling algorithms.

ASSET 6.2 now includes the iBwave RF-vu Viewer specifically for in-building planning

The RF-vu viewer makes in-building site information readily available for viewing to macro radio planning and optimisation engineers, including site radio parameters, inventory data, In-building site floor plans, and in-building coverage or measurements information.

NEW!

ASSET is the only tool required for designing, site and cell planning and optimising multi-technology radio networks. Its advanced planning capabilities can save both time and money during network deployment by automating time consuming tasks such as site configuration, traffic planning, network dimensioning, and parameter planning.

ASSET comes with eight optional productivity packs, for operators to further harness the power of ASSET. These packs can be added as and when needed, to ensure ASSET can deliver a custom solution, ready to cope with continually changing planning team requirements.

About ASSET:

ADVANTAGE™ - A productivity pack of ASSET, is an ACP module, designed to enable operators to make better business decisions by assessing the impact of different network configurations within their license obligations. Automated Cell Planning (ACP) enables networks to be real-time engineered to maximise capacity, coverage and network quality, whilst reducing the cost of OPEX and reducing the inherent risk of error by minimising manual intervention.

ASSET ACP™ – An in-built, ACP tool for cell planning - Taking the world’s number one radio planning tool, ASSET, with proven optimisation algorithms from ADVANTAGE, we have created a revolutionary new concept in RF planning that improves the efficiency and effectiveness of planners, by integrating the core functionalities of a full blown ACP product into the everyday planning activities of an RF planner.

Using ASSET with the ASSET ACP module, operators may study the effects of LTE requirements within existing networks and prepare for the changes needed to introduce LTE into the current infrastructure.

ASSET 6.2 Financial Analysis has the power to effectively tell the user if there is a business case for rolling out LTE, while planning an optimized network prior to deployment. It also has the capability to enable detailed OPEX and CAPEX ’what if‘ planning scenarios, maximising revenues and operating margins.

ARRAYWIZARD™ – to maintain up-to-date arrays and predictions - ARRAYWIZARD ensures that detailed and up-to-date statistics on predicted national network coverage - critical for customer care services – are produced reliably and regularly. No other tool is capable of automation and scheduling on such a large scale.

Web Enabled Data (WED) allows:

• External performance measurement counters linked to site content

• Design guidelines tailored to display content relevant to your current technology

• Feature-rich online GIS integration allowing accurate aerial and street map data.

• Customised reports and views of your ASSET network data

Multi-core predictions (dual/quad core options) for rapid processing - potentially doubling or quadrupling performance, by using multiple CPU cores to process path loss prediction calculations in parallel.

Distributed predictions (single/dual/quad core agent) to reduce OPEX - allowing users to make more use of new, powerful hardware becoming available on both desktop and server machines – increasing the prediction throughput in direct proportion to hardware resources.

64-bit simulator – support for very large/detailed simulations - The native 64-bit version of the simulator has the ability to address up to 16TB of virtual memory and 128GB of physical memory (RAM).

ILSA – Automatic frequency planning – Intelligent Local Search Algorithm (ILSA) utilises advanced heuristic search algorithms with the latest techniques in combinatorial mathematics for optimum frequency plans - critical for the quality of the radio network. The proprietary algorithm works by iteratively improving a frequency plan. ILSA is able to evaluate thousands of changes every second. The algorithm will intelligently adapt its search to concentrate on those areas of the network which have the largest interference problems.

Productivity packs:

• Plan, design and optimise integrated networks

• Maximise network quality of service and ensure subscriber contentment, reducing churn

• Reduce network maintenance costs and the time in planning networks

• Analyse future and current capacity scenarios with static and dynamic simulators, and deploy optimum solutions

• Analyse coverage, interference and traffic across multiple technologies

• View capacity planning scenarios

• Plan and optimise neighbour relationships

• Share information throughout the organization within a multi-user environment

• Switch between textual and map analysis for quick interpretation of results

• Generate sophisticated statistics and reports

• Harness drive test data for increased accuracy of path loss predictions

• Auto-tune propagation models

• Understand business cases for new technology networks

Use ASSET to:

• Coverage and capacity planning using the Monte Carlo simulator

• Detailed outputs and reports

• Neighbour analysis

• Automatic cell planning (power and antenna)

• Seamless and effective integration of any external content within ENTERPRISE via web services

• Faster path loss predictions with seamless user experience

• Highly efficient scheduled and automated generation of statistics

• Fast and accurate resource planning improvements save up to 50% of engineer’s time saving operator OPEX - more accurate plans reduce CAPEX

• Up-to-date statistics produced reliably and regularly at minimal OPEX for the operator

• Create ‘what if’ financial analysis scenarios for comprehensive evaluation

Unlock ASSET’S potential:

GSM, EGPRS, UMTS FDD, HSPA, Mobile / Fixed WiMAX / BWA, CDMA2000, EV-DO Rev 0 / Rev A, DVB-H, TETRA, AMPS / TDMA

ASSET and the ENTERPRISE suite are powered by an Oracle database for resilience, scalability and to best support data exchange with other network operations.

ASSET supports the following technologies:

For more information, or to arrange a demonstration, please contact our sales team on [email protected] and a local representative will be in touch.

• Multi-technology analysis – Each technology pack expands the high performance ASSET simulator with a comprehensive set of coverage/interference/ capacity facilities appropriate to that technology. These output results can then be analysed spatially on the map view or using the simulation reports. When used in conjunction with each other, the simulator becomes multi-technology aware and can model the transition of traffic between UMTS and GSM.

• Multi-technology projects – ASSET’s database is able to simultaneously model all technologies without having to swap between projects.

• Web enabled – Capable of seamlessly and effectively integrating any web based content, complementing the engineers experience with related information originating from external sources. The web based content integration endows ASSET with the ability to easily integrate into large scale multi-application environments.

• Data analysis – Powerful multi-user dynamic and static filtering capabilities allow multiple views of the network configuration to be created and shared amongst individual users and teams.

• Detailed reporting options – Composite reports for a 360° network view, sector based handoff reports, for more detailed data analysis, downlink performance reports, throughput reports for traffic monitoring, QoS, site/node reports and more. Reports may be saved to TXT, Excel®, and XML formats, with PDF, BMP and TIFF outputs for archiving data more effectively.

• Multi-user access - The ASSET database is shared across multiple users (and multiple sites), with a current view of the network always available, without the requirement to synchronise manually. A powerful in-built security system ensures that network privileges may be specified to manage individual and group access at multiple levels.

• Shared database - ASSET data may be shared across multiple tools: - no manual uploads of databases required, saving operator time and minimising risk of errors.

• Set-up and configuration wizards – An improved user interface adds a number of wizards to save time and free the user from tedious manual tasks, ensuring rapid rollout of new sites, and fast optimisation of existing configurations.

ASSET key features:

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AIRCOM is an independent provider of network and data management tools and services. The company specialises in end-to-end network planning, sharing, outsourcing and OSS optimisation for IP and cellular networks.

Headquartered in the UK with offices in 14 countries, AIRCOM has more than 10 years’ experience across 135 countries for over half the world’s mobile operators, including more than 4 million man hours working on 3G networks alone. The top 20 global operators depend upon AIRCOM’s tools and consultants to improve the coverage and customer experience, for more than 1.1 billion subscribers.

Consultancy and training

AIRCOM also offers a comprehensive range of consultancy services, to advise businesses at every stage of their network lifecycle.

We also run a number of highly acclaimed training courses, held at international locations, not only for AIRCOM’s own product lines, but also for various technologies, including 3G and WiMAX core network convergence, HSPA technology and applied planning and optimisation.

Visit www.aircominternational.com/course_list for more information.

About AIRCOM International

WORLDWIDE HEADQUARTERSAIRCOM International LtdLeatherhead, Surrey,UK

+44 (0) 1932 442 000 [email protected]

www.aircominternational.com

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