Why optimize the RF network setup?

Radio network optimization helps to ensure that a network operator can achieve a profitable network setup that maximizes coverage, capacity and quality at minimal cost. In todays competitive 3G environment, only those offering a level of service that can support the wide range of mobile services expected by the subscriber will attract subscribers. The sooner they are acquired - and more importantly retained - the quicker the network can generate a good return on investment.

Actix Radioplan automatic optimization: trusted accuracy

Network planning and optimization are not isolated tasks. They need to be integrated into comprehensive workflows and systems. The Radioplan optimization solution is designed to deliver outstanding network coverage, quality and capacity figures in an exceptionally quick timeframe. Using proprietary mechanisms within a well-engineered process, the Radioplan optimization solution has been field tested to produce results that make a huge difference in a fraction of the normal time for such tasks, saving as much as 80% of the time traditionally required to optimize a network. This technical advance represents a huge leap forward in technology, and gives operators a big advantage in the race to acquire and retain 3G subscribers.

The optimization engine in particular needs to work smoothly with systems generating planning and measurement data, such that results from the real world can be used to fine tune the planning database and help provide optimal path loss data for the final optimization. Using proprietary technology and a unique mechanism, the Radioplan platform seamlessly and automatically provides enormous improvements in pathloss accuracy, typically improving the precision from a mismatch of around 8 dB to around 2 dB, generating a factor of 3 increase in pre-optimization input precision. These capabilities allow Radioplan to deliver the highest quality results in the shortest possible time, helping drive market entry and return on investment for operators.

Actix Radioplan: advantages

Radioplan supports network operators to efficiently plan, deploy, and optimize their networks. The platform provides comfortable data exchange opportunities with other applications, thus allowing for a simple and convenient integration into existing workflows.

2G/3G Automatic RF Optimization

Datasheet

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Using Radioplan, the user is quickly enabled to:

Dramatically cut down network maintenance costs and timeframes required to achieve optimal results

Secure feedback concerning service level agreements Maximize the offered Quality of Service to increase subscriber satisfaction and reduce

the churn rate

Maximize the packet data throughput by solving the tradeoff between different UMTS transmission options

Support optimization tasks by imitating trouble regions with different traffic, service, and mobility scenarios

Configure the RRM for hierarchical cell layers and multiple frequencies for best performance

Break down the 3G network complexity to enable multiservice provisioning at high QoS.

Selected features

Radioplans optimization engine comprises outstanding features that make it an excellent solution for 3G network rollout and operation. Radioplan features include:

Speed: optimizes larger areas (more than 100 cell sites) within a few minutes Reliability: independent QoS validation of optimization improvement using dynamic

simulation

Flexible cost management Flexible constraint management

Market-leading GUI features

Radioplan provides a fully GIS-enabled GUI, supporting more than 150 geographical coordinate systems. Features include:

Support for networks with >1000 sites per project

True-to-scale graphical representation of radio network, configuration data (predictions, clutter, DEM, roads, ...), simulation results, measurement results

Multi-layer presentation, alpha blending, overlaying, merging, and coinciding of any data

Multi-user environments enabled by backed SQL Database, flexible user rights management

Highly reliable GUI, able to handle gigabytes of data

Radioplan value proposition

With a tight market window and a competitive environment, a network with good quality, capacity and coverage helps to keep more subscribers satisfied at a lower cost. By ensuring good first-time accuracy of results, and by delivering a fast optimization mechanism within a well-engineered process, Radioplan helps cut the time it takes to get services to market, generating a huge time-based advantage in subscriber acquisition, while still driving down costs.

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Optimization parameters

Comprehensive support for all optimization parameters:

Antenna type Antenna tilt Antenna azimuth Pilot power

Full site selection Site candidate

selection

Optimization objectives

Capabilities include unique targeted and extremely efficient optimization algorithm for:

Coverage Capacity

Service quality Site selection

Interfaces

Radioplan supports a wide array of commonly used data import and export formats, including network planning toolsets and measurement acquisition drive test systems. These include:

Import of all common raster and vector GIS formats (bil, tiff, img, shp, mif, etc.) Full support of a wide variety of legacy planning tools Import of measurement data from multiple W-CDMA drive test systems from all leading

vendors

Import of generic ASCII files Full Microsoft Windows clipboard support Export of tabular data as native Excel or ASCII Export of graphics via clipboard or as jpeg, geo-referenced tiff, etc.

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Comparison of Radioplan optimization method vs. traditional time-consuming snapshot simulation methods

Comprehensive GUI analysis opportunities

Results are provided as network specific, UE specific, or service specific parameters over time/location (link tracing) and as statistical distributions. Analysis of results is supported with a broad array of reports and manipulations, including:

Spatial analysis using surface plots and tables Temporal analysis using time charts and tables Statistical analysis using histograms, quick evaluation of mean, standard deviation

average values in both log and linear domains

Summary reports including automatic KPI extraction for measurements, simulation, and optimization

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