Capesso Product Information 2011

SMART UP YOUR NETWORK

Market leading automatic cell planning

Capesso is the proven, fully featured, tightly integrated automatic cell planning (ACP) tool from Symena. Capesso combines data about the radio network with planning objectives like coverage, capacity and quality to automatically find the best network design. Capesso delivers better radio networks!

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Why use Capesso?

BETTER PLANS Radio network plans produced or improved by Capesso are significantly better than plans made by even the best engineers using manual methods. Capesso uses sophisticated, purpose built mathematical algorithms to accurately balance competing design factors including geo-data, traffic volume, clutter, propagation, antenna height, cost and availability. Capesso produces improved coverage, better quality and higher capacity at reduced cost. Capesso regularly shows performance improvements of more than 30% over manual designs. GREATER PRODUCTIVITY Capesso develops a network plan in a fraction of the time it takes an engineer to plan the same area. Using ordinary computing hardware Capesso produces great plans in practical timescales. A plan for a town can be generated on a laptop in a few minutes. A plan for a metropolis? An overnight run on the same machine. LOWER CAPITAL AND OPERATING EXPENSES The objective of every good engineering plan is to deliver the maximum utility at the lowest cost. Capesso can assign cost to every action, like costs for site acquisition, site visits, special equipment or an antenna change. Capesso balances each of these potential actions against the benefit it delivers to produce the most cost effective network. EASE OF COMPARISON What happens in Case A compared to Case B? What does performance look like before and after changes? Capesso Inspector shows these comparisons quickly and graphically using a fast, purpose built graphical user interface. Inspector features one click changes between views like before, after and difference. These views reflect the network performance from the planning tool. They dont create a new view of the world.

Capesso is a user friendly tool which provides good results and is valuable for nominal planning, "what if" analysis and also initial setting and optimization.
M.Kukuc Senior RF System Engineer Vodafone Czech Republic

We are particularly impressed with the level and speed of Capesso. The results are clearly superior to competitive products.
U.Rokita Director Network Planning mobilkom Austria group

We consider that it will be difficult to do without Capesso.

Vincent Hoffmann Senior Radio Planning Expert TDF France

Capesso quickly and clearly demonstrated excellent results through its site selection combination and jointly with its ACP functions.
David Barker CTO Quintel

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Best cost-performance gain

MULTIPLE NETWORKS PLANNED JOINTLY Most operators have multiple radio networks whether it's GSM and WCDMA or multiple carriers on the same technology. Between networks there is shared equipment like multiband antennas, or shared performance objectives such as coverage requirements. Capesso can jointly balance the objectives between networks simultaneously to deliver the best system wide performance. NETWORK SHARING If most operators have multiple networks things become even more interesting when you have multiple operators. This happens with network sharing and mergers of operators. With Capesso you can jointly and simultaneously plan multiple networks and achieve the best results for each of them. TIGHT INTEGRATION WITH EXISTING TOOLS AND PROCESSES Symenas design philosophy is to complement the planning tool and not to replace it. Symena achieves this by tight integration of Capesso with the planning tool. This integration has two parts: one click, hands-off transfer of the data between the tools and Capessos internal calculations mimic those of the planning tool used. This ensures that the planning tool and Capesso provide a single view of your network's operation. And this means that Capesso builds on existing investment and processes, minimizes training times and improves productivity. PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION Capesso delivers practical implementation plans incorporating site availability. The implementation plan provides a build order for the actions required. The great value of this feature is that an engineer can easily see where changes deliver value for money. Why make the last change when it delivers marginal benefit? You can tell with Capesso.
Capesso was used to improve network performance using antenna tilt and azimuth. The implementation plan is used to find the most effective changes against cost. Areas with poor service (coverage, capacity, quality) are shown in blue.

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performance before Capesso 50% of the cost: 75% of possible gain 100% of the cost: 100% of possible gain

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Capesso Features
BALANCED AUTOMATIC PLANNING OBJECTIVES APPROPRIATE TO RADIO STANDARDS > Capacity > Coverage > Inter system objectives > Weighted combinations of multiple different objectives CONSTRAINTS CAN BE PLACED ON > Separate time and cost budgets > Step sizes and resource constraints > Any parameter on any sector A WIDE SELECTION OF PARAMETERS AVAILABLE FOR MODIFICATION > Mechanical and electrical antenna tilt > Antenna azimuth > Sector location > Pilot and common channel power > Soft handover settings > Antenna pattern including beamwidth modifications CAPESSO OPERATES WITH THE FOLLOWING RADIO STANDARDS > GSM / GPRS / EDGE > WCDMA / UMTS including HS_PA > CDMA2000 with various variants including EV-DO > WiMAX (802.16d, 802.16e) > LTE

KEY BENEFITS > IMPLEMENTATION PLANNING provides an ordered list of required parameter changes so that the most valuable and effective changes are implemented at the earliest possible moment. > MULTIPLE CALCULATION MODES provide a trade off between speed of the calculation and accuracy of the modifications proposed. A good result can be obtained very quickly! Where more time or computing power is available these results can be refined using the most comprehensive computation modes. COMPREHENSIVE REPORTING in Microsoft Excel format makes it easy to incorporate the optimization results into a variety of formats and other systems.

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Capesso Product Information 2011

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Capesso Product Information 2011