x-ACP
Cell plans based on legacy systems will not meet the demands of more advanced networks, resulting in inefficient spectrum and capital uses. Expensive drive-test and tedious, iterative optimization techniques increase operating expenses and deliver only satisfactory local designs, not the ideal system designs needed. Today's 2G and 3G networks require high-performance RF designs to achieve optimal coverage, capacity and service quality. x-ACPTM is a state-of-the-art Automatic Cell Planning solution that enables optimization of the entire network at one time, thereby significantly improving network performance, maximizing capital efficiency, as enhancing overall Quality of Service.
With x-ACP's site selection algorithms, cell planners can choose between multiple proposed candidate cells to select those that meet desired objectives. In addition, network integration algorithms allow them to choose between two overlaid networks and multiple spectrum bands for the optimal design.
x-ACP combines a variety of optimization techniques such as evolutionary algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu-search, and domain specific heuristics to achieve high customer-perceived quality. It evaluates such customer-centric quality factors as Frame Erasure Rate, Block Error Rate, RxQual and BER, versus engineering approximations.
x-ACP also features a financial cost function that allows users to set budget controls. In this way, users can prioritize capital expenditures and eliminate spending on unnecessary improvements and upgrades.
x-ACP is the solution you need if you are looking to improve your existing design plan or you're seeking more economical ways to increase the coverage, capacity, and QoS of your network. Specifically, x-ACP enables you to:
- Optimize performance of the entire network at once
- Evaluate a variety of optimization strategies to achieve varying levels of coverage, capacity and quality
- Prioritize and reduce capital expenditures with a practical monetary cost function
- Improve return on investment through effective use of spectrum, infrastruture and engineering resources
| Supports multiple technologies... | For multiple services... |
|---|---|
| AMPS | Voice (EFR, AMR FR, AMR HR) |
| TDMA | Web Browsing |
| GSM | File Transfer Protocol |
| GPRS | WAP |
| EDGE | |
| UMTS | SMS |
When combined with x-Simulator, our network simulation solution, and our frequency planning module x-AFP, x-ACP delivers a comprehensive approach to system optimization.
Download the x-ACP product sheet (
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