Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:48 EST

Dresden, Germany 11 October 2005

Radioplan, the German automatic mobile network optimization (ACP) vendor, today announced that the latest version of their automatic cell planning solution features fully automatic HSDPA optimization functionality.

Delivering capabilities both to optimize for maximum coverage and capacity, and to provide vendor independent verification of the maximum performance of HSDPA solutions, Radioplan has a complete operational solution for the needs of HSDPA deployments available today.

"By working closely with customers and by investing in research, we're able to be ready with fully featured solutions that are very advanced and yet still user friendly", said Johannes Huebner, Radioplan's Executive Manager. "We've been supporting HSDPA and HSUPA optimization needs for more than one year, and now that the time has come for many more operators to start working in this area, Radioplan has a fully productized, well integrated solution available to support them".

Radioplan's popular optimization solution, WiNeS, which features capabilities to optimize GSM, WCDMA, CDMA2000-EVDO, and now HSDPA, is in broad use in Europe, Asia and Japan, and has already been selected to assist in the deployment of numerous European, Asian, and American 3G networks.

Radioplan has been producing optimization and simulation technologies since 2000. The WiNeS product suite includes indoor and outdoor ACP tools, static, hybrid and fully-dynamic simulators, and ray-launching propagation modelling tools. The WiNeS software suite is vendor independent, with flexible interfaces to a broad range of planning tools, drive test and scanner solutions, OSS systems and switch performance statistics.