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Product Description
May 2013
Contact Information
Iris Yablonka
Product Manager
Mobile: +972-523-992-399
Office: +972-392-69-855
e-mail: Iris.Yablonka@teoco.com
Designed to assist RF engineers with their daily tasks, Ultima Forte is compatible with all
major vendors, including Ericsson, Nokia, Nortel, Alcatel, Siemens, Motorola, ZTE and
Huawei. As such, the tool is easy to implement and use, while providing accurate and
thorough results.
The accuracy of the Forte's network representation stems from its use of mobile
measurements solely. Indeed, mobile handsets used by subscribers around the network yield
measurement reports that best reflect the users network experience. Forte leverages this
information to deliver an accurate view of the network's performance, while providing
the tools to optimize it.
The robustness of the Forte solution is partly due to its use of TEOCO's semi-dynamic GSM
Network Simulator and state of the art genetic-algorithm engine. These capabilities are used
primarily to evaluate network quality, generate optimal frequency and neighbor-list plans, and
produce network quality evaluation reports for existing and suggested frequency plans. In
other words, they are geared to improve the network's performance. .
Ultimately, the tools offered by Forte, assist operators and infrastructure vendors in
their efforts to continuously and automatically sustain peak performances. As such,
Forte delivers substantial time gain, while reducing errors.
The Workflow of Forte can be divided in 5 steps all integrated within one single and user
friendly tool:
Network Environment Construction
Data Collection & Modeling
Network Performance and Quality Analysis
Optimization Engine
Validation & Implementation
Forte provides an automatic mobile measurement plan and generates command files to
implement the plan in formats that can be uploaded directly into the BSC/OSS.
Additionally, Forte generates a single multi-vendor interference model by merging the mobile
measurement recordings of each vendor, enabling RF engineers to seamlessly optimize their
multi-vendor network environment.
Forte can also merge additional sources of input data, to provide a unified interference matrix
that can be used for planning (New Site/Sector/TRXs Rollout) and optimization tasks.
Forte QE can be run on the users current network configuration (i.e. frequency plan, RAN
features set) to achieve:
Validation of the current network model
Quality comparison of various internal frequency plans
Quality comparison of an external frequency plan
Evaluation of GSM parameter changes
Analysis of network traffic growth
Evaluation of various network configurations and forecasting of future network quality
before implementation.
The tool also provides reports on GPRS and EDGE throughput probability per timeslot, with
Link Adaptation algorithms, for CS/MCS usage probability per sector:
GPRS and EDGE throughput per timeslot estimation
GPRS and EDGE CS/MCS usage estimation
The Frequency Optimizer supports numerous network parameters including HSN/MAIO and
BSIC allocations, BCCH and/or TCH domain splits, and frequency bands (single and/or multi-
band domains). In addition, the optimal frequency optimizer can also deploy Synthesized
Frequency Hopping (SFH) by means of the following methods:
Ad-Hoc (planned) MAL per sector
Ad Hoc MAL per site
Fixed Mobile Allocation List (MAL) per sector
Fixed MAL per site (synchronized sectors)
Fixed or ad-hoc MAL definition per site or sector for the TCH layer:
Fixed hopping groups can be ranged from 1:1 (one MAL for the TCH layer) to 1:N (multiple
MALs).
Ad hoc hopping is a unique method, used by TEOCO to leverage the combined benefits of
frequency hopping and frequency reuse. Different hopping scenarios can be defined for
different sub-areas or groups within the optimization set.
Forte also delivers uplink support, for the optimization and simulation of uplink traffic
performance in both network evaluation and frequency optimization procedures.
Optimization Constraints
During the execution of frequency optimization, Forte takes into account several constraints:
Separation Constraints are constraints that use the definition of logical rules for
channel separation and frequency allocation (internal and external sources).
Physical constraints are constraints derived from Mobile Measurements
Logical constraints are user-defined, and include:
hardware restrictions, e.g., frequency channel separation between TRXs, can
be defined on a per-sector basis for hybrid or filtered combinations.
neighbor constraints, i.e., co-channel or adjacent channel
neighbor triangulation constraints
user-defined constraints lists, e.g., prediction or drive-test-based interference
matrices
forbidden frequencies lists per sector/channel type
The neighbor list optimizer is meant to improve GSM network performance by decreasing the
handover failure rate, which leads to a greater effectiveness of the deployed frequency plan.
The optimizer is supported by a wizard
The neighbor list optimizer results can be exported automatically to the operators
BSC/BSS/OMC-R.
Overall, the RAN feature optimizer generates a set of reports to evaluate the optimization run.
The reports compare different aspects of the network before and after optimization, (e.g., total
affected traffic, frequency mapping within the sector's sub-cell, and sector configuration).
Its enterprise grade client-server architecture ensures scalable data collection, processing,
storage, and delivers a full-featured, rich client application that enables engineers and their
managers to easily perform required optimization and analysis tasks in a highly responsive
environment.
Spectrum Management
TEOCOs Spectrum Management Solution delivers the automatic network analysis, traffic
management, and frequency planning solutions needed for a successful spectrum carve-
out.
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