The webinar will include:

• Determining what parts of a band can be used and coordination rules
• Identifying how to set up a frequency allocation list, group, band & plans
• Understanding how to setup assignment logic rules within the assignment engine
• Creating and using wanted/unwanted coverage predictions and their role in the assignment process
• Outlining process to test the ‘applicability’ of an assignment result

Recommended target audience: radio planning engineers, spectrum managers and national regulators who manage spectrum assignment.

Date: Thursday 23 May 2013
Time: 10am GMT
Target audience: Invitation only
Method: Online webinar

Space is limited. Please contact Darja Scanikova to book your seat.

ATDI sent its training personnel to CIGE’s school in Brasilia to execute the week long training in March. Along with the support of ATDI’s local representative, Latin Media, the 13 CIGE students received hands-on instructions on how to utilize HTZ warfare to model triangulation and jamming scenarios. The CIGE students were taught a wide range of topics, such as, how to optimize the placement of an electronic attack system on a particular geographic location, identifying hidden enemy networks with direction finder algorithms, calculating fixed or mobile jammer coverage/efficiency analyses over 3D terrain and optimizing allied radio equipment location to intercept enemy communications without detection from enemy radars.

The electronic warfare students also learned how to detect mobile targets along a path and command control communications with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). They also learned planning of military satellites GSO & NGSO orbit, constellation planning and deployment with ground-based network link analysis capabilities. ATDI trainer, Joel Rodriguez says “The best part of conducting a training course for customers like CCOMGEX is when the users say, ‘Now, I am equipped to do the work I could not do before’ with a smile on their face. We are looking forward to working with and supporting all of the CIGE students for years to come.”

With the assistance of Latin Media, ATDI will be providing maintenance support to the CIGE students for the next two years.

Learn more about HTZ warfare here.

Cloud functions:

• Creation of the project 
• Data download 
• Data storage 
• Data visualization 
• Data export XML 
• Data export EWF 
• Filters (geographical or technical parameters)

This option is available via your ICS online access. Contact us for more information.

This year at Sviaz/Expo Comm ATDI is going to present its latest software solution – ICS designer.

ICS designer is the most complete and cost-effective radio planning tool that exists on the market. It is specially developed to design and optimize all radio technologies including broadcast (analogue, DVB-T, DVB-T2, ISDB-T etc), mobile (LTE, 3G, 2G, WiMAX etc.), point to multipoint, microwave links, PMR etc.

Among many useful radio planning functions, ICS designer offers the following benefits:

• Complete roll-out of a radio network design
• Interference calculation and analysis
• Possibility to simulate multiple radio technologies in the same project (for example DVB-T and LTE)
• A large choice of propagation models
• Comparison between measurement and simulations (model tuning)
• Database support

ICS designer is widely used by telecom operators, broadcasters, telecom equipment makers, system integrators and engineering firms all over the world.

Among new features recently proposed with ICS designer, ATDI will be demonstrating ICS online. ICS online is a unique cloud solution that allows ICS designer users to share data with their customers and partners in an easy, quick and secure way. With ICS online it is possible to share online heavy radio planning data such as coverage, sites, interference, traffic maps, etc resulting from ICS designer calculations.

Visit ATDI at Sviaz/Expo Comm, stand number 81B15, to learn more about ICS designer and ICS online.

ATDI is going to make a presentation dedicated to PMR/TETRA automated network planning at TETRA and Critical Communications Live Theater. We would like to invite everyone to join us for this presentation on Thursday, May 23rd at 16:35.

You are welcome to visit ATDI and ask for a demo of the latest software solution – ICS designer. ICS designer is specially developed to design and optimize all types of networks, including PMR and trunked radio systems such as TETRA, TETRAPOL, APCO-25, MPT 1327 and others.

Among many useful radio planning functions, ICS designer offers the following benefits:

• Complete roll-out of a radio network design
• Interference calculation and analysis
• Possibility to simulate multiple radio technologies in the same project (for example TETRA and LTE)
• A large choice of propagation models
• Comparison between measurement and simulations (model tuning)
• Database support

ICS designer (or it’s the military version HTZ warfare Battlefield Edition) is widely used by military forces and emergency services (police, surveillance, fire department, ambulance services, border patrols) as well as private network holders (factories, oil refineries, energy plants, natural reserves).
Join us at Critical Communications World 2013, stand number D309, to learn more about ICS designer and other radio planning solutions from ATDI.

Contact us to schedule a meeting at CCW 2013.

It is now possible to generate the ground occupancy layer in any ICS tool from Corine Land Cover and Open Street Map sources, regardless of resolution and cartographic projection of your project. You just have to download free Corine Land Cover and Open Street Map data directly from CLC and OSM import interface in ICS tool. This will allow to obtain quickly and easily a 16 classes clutter file for Europe and a 8 classes worldwide one compatible with your DTM in ICS software.

The Corine Land Cover Data (CLC) cover whole Europe and Turkey.
The Open Street Map (OSM) data cover the whole world.

Contact us for more information.

]]> http://www.atdi.com/free-of-charge-clutter-now-available-in-ics-tools/feed/ 0 http://www.atdi.com/atdi-to-deliver-spectrum-management-solutions-for-world-games/ http://www.atdi.com/atdi-to-deliver-spectrum-management-solutions-for-world-games/#comments Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:19:50 +0000 ATDI http://www.atdi.com/?p=5809 ATDI, Inc. along with a consortium led by its Brazilian partner, ISOFREQ Telecomunicações e Sistemas LTDA (ISOFREQ), have successfully completed the initial delivery of contracts valued at USD $12 million to Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (ANATEL), the national spectrum authority of Brazil. ATDI, Inc. and ISOFREQ are in the process of implementing a next generation spectrum management solution for ANATEL, in anticipation of the upcoming world games. The contractual requirements include the distribution of commercial software components from ATDI’s ICS software product line, in-country training, as well as a customized implementation of ATDI’s innovative web based spectrum management solution, Spectrum-E.

“ANATEL is looking forward to the relationship with ATDI for the delivery of tools to help make our spectrum management needs in Brazil more efficient,” said Yroá Robledo Ferreira, Spectrum Engineer Specialist for ANATEL. “Additionally, the ATDI representatives make themselves very available to take care of any questions our team may have during the entire delivery and implementation process.”

“We are very excited to contribute to the preparation and success of these world-class events,” said Pierre Missud, CEO of ATDI Inc. “ANATEL’s vision and tech-savvy environment is the perfect place to innovate and create enduring systems for the next decade.”

As Brazil will host the FIFA Confederations Cup in 2013, FIFA World Cup™ in 2014, and Rio 2016™ Olympic and Paralympic Games, ANATEL identified the requirement to upgrade its current spectrum management system in order to support the increased demand for spectrum during these events and to increase their services to Brazilian subscribers.

Thousands of additional frequencies are required to ensure proper wireless service operations, such as broadcasting and public safety. This challenge requires the leveraging of all the available technological advances in frequency management, propagation and interference engineering, business process optimization, mobile, and online capability deployment. The fixed contract delivery timeline, limited testing, and quick ramp-up add to the challenge.

“This is a very innovative project and during the upcoming years we will remain focused on executing the contract in accordance with ANATEL’s specifications,” said Alexandre Souza, Technical Director of ISOFREQ. “We are happy to have the opportunity to work together with ANATEL and ATDI’s professional teams to ensure that the project goals are successfully met.”

The new optimizations will be tested in late April 2013 in anticipation of the Confederations Cup.

Iceland, with a population of just 322,000, is slowly recovering from 2008’s banking and financial crisis. Now bolstered by increasingly positive economic news and a higher status from ratings agencies such as Fitch, the island nation is growing in confidence once more.

“PFS’s purchase of ICS telecom is definitely with one eye on the future,” notes ATDI Ltd access networks lead engineer Paul Grant. “ICS telecom is the perfect tool for both seeing what you have and what you can do with it so, clearly, the management at PFS is looking at what new services are feasible as economic confidence grows – while also bearing in mind Iceland’s unique geography.”

The country’s population is concentrated in the capital city, Reykjavík, which is home to 120,000 people. The other 202,000 are scattered at a density of three per square kilometre; the equivalent figure for England is 407.

“Europe’s most active volcano, spewing clouds of dust and potentially affecting telecommunication and broadcast networks, is only one of PFS’s many challenges. The UK is only too aware of the effects of recent eruptions but a lesser known fact is the effect of volcanic ash on signal attenuation and reduced signal strength. Modelling real-life scenarios with ICS telecom enables the regulator to understand the impact of such an occurrence and provide mitigation solutions.”

“Saying that, statistics gathered from recent eruptions show that the largest disruption comes from overloading due to high user demand,” Paul comments. “Being able to manage increased network traffic during emergencies is an integral feature ICS telecom and one used by many blue-light service networks globally.”

This event will include:

• Overview of neighbours
• Why they are used?
• When they are used?
• Setting up within ATDI’s software planning tools

The webinar includes an online demo and allocation of time for Questions & Answers.

The webinar is targetted at engineers who are proficient in the use of ATDI’s software planning tools.

For more information or to submit a question before the event please contact: dscanikova@atdi.com

Date: Thursday 7 March 2013
Time: 10am GMT
Target audience: Invitation only
Method: Online webinar

• Support of the SNS V7 format (for notifying to ITU in the Space services). Following the 2012 conference, the ITU updated the format of the spatial databases to version 7. This format is now mandatory since the 1st of January 2013 for submitting data to the ITU. ICS Manager has been updated to handle the new version of SNS databases format (V7) and Gibc software
• Optimization of queries. It is now possible to organize queries is subfolders, to move them by drag and drop. This allows to manage your queries in more comfortable and ergonomic way
• Facilitating exchange with ICS telecom. STATIONi database selection and MWi database selection merged in a single dialog, channeling plans automatically exported
• Improved cartographic features. This includes support for Open Street Map, geocoding and reverse geocoding that is now available in the Position table (using Bing services)

Exchange with ICS telecom

Open Street Map in ICS manager

SNS V7