Management Spectrum:

Effective software project management focuses on the four Ps: people, product, process, and project. The order is not arbitrary. The manager who forgets that software engineering work is an intensely human endeavor will never have success in project management. A manager who fails to encourage comprehensive customer communication early in the evolution of a project risks building an elegant solution for the wrong problem. The manager who pays little attention to the process runs the risk of inserting competent technical methods and tools into a vacuum. The manager who embarks without a solid project plan jeopardizes the success of the product.

Management Spectrum:
Planning, coordinating, and managing joint use of the electromagnetic spectrum through operational, engineering, and administrative procedures. The objective of spectrum management is to enable electronic systems to perform their functions in the intended environment without causing or suffering unacceptable interference. Spectrum management is easily systematised: broken down into a number of separate processes that when joined become a system. What's in and what's out of this system varies. Sometimes the system includes fee collection. Sometimes it includes monitoring. In every case, a spectrum regulator must complete business process engineering to establish his system and then develop the activities from a solid base. Many would argue that the ITU tells us how to do spectrum management. This is a grossly inflated claim. Every nation-state is unique and every nation-state has unique expectations about how the radio spectrum will contribute to the welfare of its citizens and their economy. The ITU, CEPT and others give good guidance and excellent detailed methods for technical analysis. They do not however 'tell' anything. This means that every nation-state, every spectrum regulator and every spectrum management organisation has differing needs. Interconnect Communications consultants have elicited requirements, specified, designed and implemented spectrum management systems across the world. They have specified and delivered systems and sub-systems for specific purposes such as those for military mission management, multilateral agreement compliance and cross-service coexistence analysis. Interconnect consultants understand the spectrum regulation and software engineering domains and are in a unique position to assist spectrum management organisations to develop, implement and enhance their spectrum management systems in whatever form they exist today and against whatever future vision the SMO has.

Management Spectrum:
Spectrum management is the process of regulating the use of radio frequencies to promote efficient use and gain a net social benefit.[1] The term radio spectrum typically refers to the full frequency range from 3 kHz to 300 GHz that may be used for wireless communication. Increasing demand for services such as mobile telephones and many others has required changes in the philosophy of spectrum management. Demand for wireless broadband has soared due to technological innovation, such as 3G and 4G mobile services, and the rapid expansion of wireless internet services. Since the 1930s, spectrum was assigned through administrative licensing. Limited by technology, signal interference was once considered as a major problem of spectrum use. Therefore, exclusive licensing was established to protect licensees' signals. This former practice of discrete bands licensed to groups of similar services is giving way, in many countries, to a "spectrum auction" model that is intended to speed technological innovation and improve the efficiency of spectrum use. During the experimental process of spectrum assignment, other approaches have also been carried out, namely, lotteries, unlicensed access and privatization of spectrum.

What is Spectrum Management?

Management of the radio spectrum is the combination of administrative, regulatory and technical procedures necessary to ensure the efficient operation of radiocommunication equipment and services. Simply stated, spectrum management is the overall process of regulating and administering access to and use of the radio frequency spectrum. A primary goal of spectrum management is to ensure optimal use of the radio spectrum, in social, economic and technical terms. From the regulators perspective managing the radio spectrum involves weighing up a range of competing factors to ensure the optimal use of all frequency bands. These factors include: ensuring that the requirements of all radio services are met in an appropriate manner and that there is a balance between the public policy requirements; maximising social benefits arising from radio use, for example in relation to public safety, national security and health care; and enhancing Irelands competitiveness by ensuring that adequate spectrum is allocated and assigned to uses that derive the highest economic value from it. In addition, there is a need to ensure the efficient use of the spectrum within the bounds of spectrum constraints and technology developments. Clearly, the regulatory process of ensuring the optimal use of the spectrum needs to be flexible and responsive in order to adapt to changes in technologies, demand, markets and public policy. Efficiencies may have to be compromised in order to safeguard the provision of certain public services such as safety, defence and public broadcasting. Technical and economic efficiencies may sometimes be constrained by international obligations related to spectrum use. ComRegs spectrum management activities embrace four main areas, namely deciding at a strategic level, in consultation with interested parties, how the spectrum should be used, developing and implementing the regulatory framework for such use, making the relevant frequencies available through competitions, authorisation, etc., and maintaining an interference-free environment. The process of allocating frequencies to radio services and the regulatory framework are largely determined by external factors such as public policy, legislation and international agreements or regulations. ComReg plays an active role in international fora, along with other relevant government departments, to ensure that as far as possible the international allocation and regulatory framework accommodates Irelands specific requirements. ComReg also participates in international technical studies to support more efficient and flexible use of the spectrum.

Current Use of Spectrum

Under Section 35 of the Communications Regulation Act, 2002, ComReg is responsible for formulating, revising, implementing and publishing the national Radio Frequency Plan detailing the frequency allocations of ireland. Comreg publishes a table of frequency allocations for ireland every two to three years, describing current and planned use of the radio spectrum. The current version is ComReg Document 08/90R3 This publication continues ComRegs commitment to ensuring that consumers are fully informed on developments that have either taken place or are planned and is once again is aimed at current users, potential users and investors in telecommunication services in Ireland. The tables outline the types of radiocommunication services allocated to each frequency band, the standards that apply, together with some notes on future developments were applicable.