The performance of Atoll can be enhanced through the use of specialist automatic cell planning software delivering significantly improved network coverage and capacity with the same infrastructure investment.

Capesso™

Capesso delivers UMTS, CDMA, GSM, TD-SCDMA, WiMAX, mobile TV (DVB-H, MediaFLO) and LTE plans including:

• Optimized joint planning of multiple networks.
• Analysis and integration of measured data; and
• Planning for the latest multi-dimensionally adjustable antennas.

The advanced features of Capesso for LTE have been recognised by many of the world's leading operators and vendors. Capesso™ is being used in Japan, North America and Europe by both Tier 1 operators and several major vendors on some of the highest profile LTE deployments. One global operator is using Capesso™ to provide strategic design, guidelines and procedures for LTE deployments across the group.

The latest version, Capesso™ 4.7 extends Symena's lead in automatic cell planning for LTE and other radio technologies by capitalizing on the experience with ten top LTE vendors. In particular Capesso™ LTE now supports coverage and quality optimization and analysis based on RSRP (reference signal received power) and RSRQ (reference signal received quality).

Some of the other functionality added in this release includes:

• Improvements in multi-core CPU utilization that deliver calculation speed improvements of between 10% and 30% depending on the scenario, availability of cores and sufficient RAM;
• Enhanced support for MIMO systems;
• Improved support for indoor clutter types; and
• Use, analysis and display of multiple focus zones in Capesso™ Inspector.

Greenfield

Greenfield is an unparalleled technology for accurate, fast, reliable and highly efficient network dimensioning in the ATOLL radio network planning tool. The key benefits of Greenfield are:

• Best initial network dimensioning, including minimum number of sites, site locations, initial RF parameter configuration, mast height selection, etc
• Very large areas planned using realistic sites and parameters in a few minutes
• Very quick planned deployment along roads, rail lines and rivers considering line of sight and terrain
• Coverage and capacity consideration
• Full verification of plan and further processing in ATOLL

The outputs of Greenfield can be used as the inputs for Capesso.

Greenfield is suitable for use where there is limited input data or limited time to get a result.

Greenfield works with all modern cellular radio standards, including GSM, CDMA, UMTS, TD-SCDMA, WiMAX and mobile TV standards.