Asset 7.0

 AIRCOM ASSET 7.0

THE WORLD’S NUMBER ONE PLANNING TOOL Mobile Network Operators around the world are already expanding their 2G/3G networks and migrating towards mobile broadband enabling technologies such as HSPA+, WiMAX and LTE.

Getting the most out of the network, meeting subscriber demands and developing new revenue growth plans is business critical and one of the key drivers in the uptake of  LTE as a new technology. LTE promises to increase network capacity, improve QoS and significantly enhance data rates, but getting the most efficient network design whilst reducing the total cost of ownership, brings new design challenges. The increasing complexity of networks and the greater availability of live network information has resulted in the development of the next generation network design and optimisation products.

AIRCOM’s experience in working with both tier one operators and equipment vendors for LTE rollouts has been harnessed in the latest of our AIRCOM ASSETTM product range – AIRCOM ASSETTM 7.0. The number one radio planning tool’s advanced functions are now combined with detailed modelling of LTE network elements, parameters and traffic, allowing you to confidently address the new challenges ahead and maximise all that LTE has to offer. ASSET provides a one stop shop for designing networks,

that is, for planning and optimising multi-technology radio networks. Its advanced network design capabilities can save both time and money during network deployment by automating time consuming tasks such as site configuration, traffic planning, network analysis, network dimensioning and parameter planning. ASSET includes optional productivity packs to accommodate a multitude of requirements and provide for significantly increased network engineering efficiencies. These packs can be added as and when

needed, to ensure ASSET can deliver a custom solution, ready to cope with continually changing requirements of the network design team.

ASSET is the world’s leading planning tool. Analysis Mason places AIRCOM International as the largest vendor of network planning software in 2010. We work with all of the world’s top 20 telcos, and over half  of the world’s mobile operators.

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With over 300 customers in over 145 countries already trusting ASSET, the new release offers a range of benefits.

• A complete set of radio network planning and optimisation capabilities including automatic cell/site planning, neighbour planning, financial analysis, drive measurement post processing and a powerful automation and scheduling engine, enabling the most efficient network design • Using the latest web based technologies ASSET 7.0 enables the

seamless integration of  information from any source including the live network itself, allowing users to make better, more informed decisions faster • Capable of analysing the impact of the traffic beyond the radio network, a critical consideration when deploying mobile broadband technologies • Integrated financial analysis function provides the means of focusing

the network planning and optimisation efforts in getting the best return on investment and maximising revenue out of existing or new networks • Excellent security and data integrity provide a true multi-user environment for large scale corporate deployments

AIRCOM’s unique offering of a multi-technology radio network planning & optimisation product in a completely integrated environment allows users to maximise captured revenue and minimise the cost of  deployment through:

• Repetitive tasks are automated allowing for most efficient analysis of the produced design

BETTER NETWORK PERFORMANCE • Intelligent automatic algorithms can more reliably and efficiently identify the optimum, leading to a better network design • Maximise coverage, network capacity and quality, while reducing costs – the ultimate aim of any network operator.

MORE EFFICIENT DESIGN • Integrated and secure environment simplifies engineer’s tasks allowing them to fully focus on the network design

BETTER AND MORE EFFICIENT USE OF ENGINEERS TIME • No need to waste time in “trial & error” • Less work for the planner and consequently for the optimisation engineer

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LTE TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT ASSET 7.0 provides a complete set of functionality for planning/dimensioning and optimising an LTE network. LTE is supported across the ASSET productivity packs including: • ASSET ACP (automatic cell planning and optimisation module) • The Financial Analysis module (ASSET’s network revenue analysis component) ASSET for LTE allows you to: • Plan and optimise your LTE network configuration • Perform LTE coverage and interference planning • Perform financial analysis on your LTE radio network, reducing overall deployment costs • Simultaneously analyse LTE network performance with other technologies (GSM/UMTS/CDMA) • Perform rapid LTE traffic and capacity analysis • Automate & schedule common network engineering tasks • Consider the impact on your backhaul network • Maintain all your network data in a secure central repository that can easily interoperate with other systems • Quickly validate vendor produced plans CARRIED TRAFFIC ANALYSIS The Carried Traffic Analysis in ASSET enables the quick identification of potential

backhaul/transmission network bottlenecks. Such a feature provides means of  analysing the impact of traffic beyond the radio network which is critical for the newly deployed mobile broadband technologies. The traffic carried over the air interface can either be simulated in ASSET or can be imported from external sources such as performance management statistics and thereafter its impact on the network elements considered. The carried traffic information generated and/or stored in ASSET can be seamlessly integrated into CONNECT for further detailed analysis of  the backhaul network. CARRIED TRAFFIC ANALYSIS In ASSET 7.0, the ability to perform interference analysis has been improved for GSM technology and extended to technologies such as WiMAX and LTE. The new interference analysis capability allows for quick problem cell/area identification and network performance troubleshooting. INTERFERENCE ANALYSIS ACROSS TECHNOLOGIES In ASSET 7.0, the ability to perform interference analysis has been improved for GSM technology and extended to technologies such as WiMAX and LTE. The new interference analysis capability allows for quick problem cell/area identification and network performance troubleshooting.

ANTENNA INSTANCE ID’S The introduction of support for custom Antenna Instance ID’s allow for a much enhanced modeling of  distributed antenna systems that are being deployed in complex buildings or large campuses. This new feature allows for easy visualisation of such a distributed antenna system affording the engineer the ability to generate the site designs quickly. EXTENDED CHARACTER SUPPORT Support for extended character set allows for much better localisation of ASSET by affording the use of FarEastern and Arabic character sets across ASSET 7.0 and its productivity packs. GOOGLE EARTH VISUALISATION Visualisation of ASSET data in an external GIS applications such as Google Earth. AIRCOM’s proprietary GIS can be synched with Google Earth allowing the engineer to get an enhanced view of the network in the context of information. USER & GROUP SPECIFIC LICENSING For the complex multitechnology networks, there is often a large number of  users using ASSET to perform a variety different tasks. ASSET 7.0 enables the allocation of specific licenses to specific users or groups to allow for better utilisation of  the available license pool.

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ADVANTAGE An Automatic Cell Planning (ACP) module, designed to enable operators to make better business decisions by assessing the impact of different network configurations within their license obligations. This enables networks to be engineers in real-time to maximise capacity, coverage and network quality, whilst reducing OPEX and reducing the inherent risk of error by minimising manual intervention. ASSET-ACP The core functionalities of  a full blown ACP product are introduced into the everyday planning activities of an RF planner using ASSET. This results in a significantly improved efficiency and effectiveness of radio planners. For example, it is possible to study the effects of LTE requirements within existing networks and prepare for the changes needed to introduce LTE into the current infrastructure. MYRIAD PROPAGATION MODEL ASSET now includes the option of a newly integrated propagation model – a sophisticated and versatile model that is the result of  intensive research in propagation, modeling and optimisation. AIRCOM’s 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 technologies in frequency ranges from 400MHz to 5GHz. It includes a very powerful automatic model tuning engine to reduce overall planning time, whilst improving planning efficiency and accuracy.

SONORITY ENHANCED FREQUENCY PLANNING Using Sonority, frequencies, BSIC, HSN and MAIO may all be effectively planned, taking into consideration inter-technology interference, particularly when considering GSM spectrum re-farming when deploying UMTS 900. Sonority 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. Interactive frequency analysis allows users to not only interpret existing plans but to make rapid changes to address potential issues, based on accurate information including measured interference matrix. ENHANCED MEASUREMENT SUPPORT Allows third party interference tables to be loaded into ASSET. Planning efficiency and accuracy is then improved through measurement based neighbor planning, identification of signal reception problems (crossed feeders), measurementbased path loss correction and propagation model analysis. FINANCIAL ANALYSIS ASSET’s Financial Analysis module has the power to effectively tell the user if  there is even a business case for rolling out a new technology (e.g. LTE), whilst planning and optimising the network prior to deployment. It also allows for detailed OPEX and CAPEX ’what if‘ planning scenarios to be completed, maximising revenues and operating margins.

ARRAYWIZARD Automatically maintaining up-to-date arrays and predictions, ARRAYWIZARD ensures that detailed and up-to-date statistics on predicted national network coverage are produced reliably and regularly. This is critical for customer care services where agents can quickly inspect the latest coverage information during calls – leading to shorter calls and happier customers. Other benefits include the inclusion of coverage checks into the sales process, leading to improved brand loyalty. RANOPT A multi-technology, multivendor drive test, walk test and in-building measurement post processing tool. For daily optimisation activities, as well as for benchmarking and trend analysis, RANOPT allows for the processing of  bulk data from a variety of  3rd party tools. RANOPT is seamlessly integrated into ASSET allowing you to analyse actual measurement data against planned. MULTI-CORE PREDICTIONS This productivity pack allows for dual/quad core processing of prediction calculations – potentially doubling or quadrupling performance. Multiple CPU cores are used to process multiple path loss predictions simultaneously. DISTRIBUTED PREDICTIONS Further increase the prediction throughput by having multiple prediction calculations running over multiple desktop and server machines.

64-BIT SIMULATOR Provides 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. This enables users to utilise 64bit PC hardware with >4GB of RAM, when performing very large and detailed simulations, delivering significant performance benefits.

ASSET EWS For seamless integration of ASSET information from any source, using the latest web-based technologies. Typical use cases include the seamless integration or interaction with inventory data, site acquisition and rollout systems, performance management data and the live network itself. This new solution affords users the ability to consolidate information from many disparate sources ultimately leading to faster and more

informed decisions, resulting in a significant improvement in efficiency.

Use ASSET to: • 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 organisation 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 • Create ‘what if’ financial analysis scenarios for comprehensive evaluation • Quickly identify backhaul/transmission network bottlenecks through the new carried traffic analysis feature • Plan your LTE rollout • Perform interference analysis across technologies • View your network and coverage in Google EarthTM

• 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

Unlock ASSET’S potential: • Coverage and capacity planning using the Monte Carlo simulator

The ability to automate the exchange of  data/information near real time with other systems, including the live network itself, is one of the key aspects of SON. ASSET EWS represents a stepping stone and one of the components enabling AIRCOM’s future SON solution.

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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 INTEGRATION Capability of seamlessly and effectively integrating any web based content, complementing the engineers experience with related information originating from external sources. The modern approach for integration based on SOA compliant web services endows ASSET

with the ability to easily integrate into large scale multi-application environments. Furthermore such an approach not only affords the ability for near real-time integration to other systems/applications but also the ability for creating with ease new and better solutions that are easy to maintain. 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.

(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 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 SUPPORTS THE FOLLOWING TECHNOLOGIES: GSM, EGPRS, UMTS FDD, HSPA, Mobile / Fixed WiMAX / BWA, CDMA2000, EV-DO Rev 0 / Rev A/Rev B, DVB-H, TETRA, AMPS / TDMA, LTE

MULTI-USER ACCESS The ASSET database is shared across multiple users

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 ABOUT AIRCOM AIRCOM is an independent provider of network management tools and services. Our I-View framework allows mobile network operators to rapidly, efficiently and seamlessly plan, manage, configure and optimise their networks. I-View enables operators to regain visibility and control of their entire network, enabling radical shifts in business dynamics to become more efficient, more agile and more profitable. The market leader in the provision and deployment of network engineering tools, AIRCOM products are in use across 135+ countries by over half the world’s mobile operators. Every day, the 20 top global operators depend upon AIRCOM’s tools and consultants to improve network coverage and quality for more than 1.1 billion subscribers worldwide. Established for 15 years, we have built our reputation on creating and releasing additional value from within cellular networks. With offices in 14 countries, we provide local and regional viewpoints and resource, as well as ensuring that our operator customers benefit from our global knowledge. By looking ahead of the market and sharing intelligence, we develop the skills and tools that network operators need to remain competitive, whatever the economic climate. With over four million hours working on 3G networks alone, our expertise translates into direct and measurable cost savings for mobile operators. From initial consultancy through project implementation, using our staff, training yours, or sourcing expertise for you to take in-house, we are dedicated to maximising the performance of your network, and therefore your business.

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