28 Feb 2012

Tablet-Based Multi-Technology SON from Celcite

Automatic optimisation tools provider, Celcite, has launched its new iCOPS pproduct as part of its COPS-SON platform. Building on their established COPS platform for 2G / 3G And including new facilities including LTE, and automatic optimisation and root cause analysis, iCOPS provides an executive web based view. This provides a high level intuitive view for executives, and others who do not need the in-depth analysis. However this is still available for the engineers to use.

In today’s broadband data intensive mobile market, together with the introduction of LTE, operators and equipment vendors need to be able to manage and improve wireless network quality continuously and proactively with minimal or no increase in OPEX costs.

LTE Self-Organising Networks, LTE-SON technology is still in a nascent stage and does not completely retrofit to 2G and 3G technologies in a multi-vendor environment, so solutions such as iCOPS and COPS-SON have become critical to complete the missing link. With LTE being deployment and deployment techniques still in their relatively early stages, SON needs to be able to account for this. Accordingly iCOPS gives a flexible view.

iCOPS and COPS-SON use Celcite’s proprietary Automatic Intelligent Correlation (AICTM) engine that enables a wireless network operator’s national, regional and other network executives to view the root cause for the worst performing network elements, analyse multiple network issues, and separate RF from operational issues automatically.

“Executives can access the tablet-friendly interactive dashboards via a single web portal at any time and on-the-go,” said Rahul Sharma, CEO of Celcite. “This allows them to obtain an instantaneous snapshot of the health of the networks in all the regions and markets they cover, saving time in identifying, tracking and trending. The root cause analysis of poorly performing networks and the intelligent correlation of issues allows them to apply corrective actions rapidly and accurately, thus minimising OPEX and improving customer experience.”

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