Optimi

xGeoManager is an innovative multi-vendor and multi-technology data management solution that allows operators to exploit the information available in measurements and events that can be collected in modern cellular networks with no need to deploy cumbersome scanners or special handsets with integrated GPS receivers. This information is managed by means of proprietary techniques that facilitate the geo-location of key measurements and events, thereby providing a completely new dimension in terms of massive location-aware performance monitoring and optimization.

Upon geo-location, information is processed at different levels. Fully integrated with Optimi’s advanced GIS capabilities, xGeoManager provides engineers with powerful and customizable spatial views for all relevant events occurring in the network. Each predicted location is provided with a measure of the statistical confidence of the geo-location operation, thereby allowing performance engineers to filter out data without sufficient degree of geo-location confidence. Ultimately, xGeoManager can further process this valuable information in order to boost the spatial accuracy of RF optimization processes, by means of advanced techniques capable to blend drive test measurements, OSS counters, propagation predictions and geo-located measurements and events.

Use cases

• Spatially-aware detailed performance surveillance, covering outdoor and indoor areas.
• Guidance for manual RF performance-driven optimization campaigns.
• Support for enhanced location-aware automated network optimization.
• System trouble-shooting driven by geo-located measurements and events.

Benefits

• Drastic OpEx savings through massive reduction in the need for drive tests.
• Better network performance through more accurate optimization processes.
• More comprehensive virtual drive testing, also including indoor locations and busy hour stats.
• Early identification of localized bad performance spots, which might be diluted within a healthy sector when using statistical OSS counters at sector level resolution.