The AUSPEX Model, using LONG RANGE INCREMENTAL PLANNING methodologies,
provides detailed network dimensioning requirements and will help to
assess the impact on capital expenditure to support increasing traffic
levels and service types and assess the impact of different levels of
equipment sharing and the renting of space on towers.
The AUSPEX solution supports a wide range of applications:
Network strategy planning
Network and cell dimensioning
Incremental service costing
Market and competition analysis
Systems design and dimensioning
Research and development
Business case planning
Tariff planning
Technology and cost comparisons
Service roll-out
The AUSPEX solution methodology allows operators to develop strategic
and detailed engineering plans by better understanding:
The main cost drivers of the network
Capacity limitations within the network and when will they restrict the
network capacity and need upgrading?
Which technology offers the most cost-effective solutions?
Incremental costs of network upgrades and evolution
The impact of changes in busy-hour traffic have on service profitability
The impact of changes in service profile have on network capacity
The best technology and network architecture to transport a service to
the subscriber
Sensitive is the network to changes in demand and technology
Hardware and investment implications of varying speeds of network
What can AUSPEX be used for?
Network strategy planning:
- Business case planning
- Allows different rollout strategies to be analysed
- Allows network architecture and technology comparisons
- Allows cost comparisons
- Allows analysis of the interaction between 2 & 3G networks
- Allows robust technical, business and investment plans to be
modeled and analysed with a high degree of confidence for new or
existing networks
- Cost and value analysis
- Forward planning
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Direct interfaces with technical,
logistics and marketing functions:
- Network and service deployment analysis
Detailed budget planning:
- Generates strategic and detailed (card level) capex and opex costs
for 2G, 2.5G and 3G networks
- Optimised cost allocation
- Incremental service costing
- Market and competition analysis
- Financial performance analysis
- Provides budget / strategic level summary
Analyses network based statistics:
- Presents detailed KPIs on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. these
KPIs are common to all vendors, derived independently from each set of
vendor raw statistics. These reports are generated automatically
daily, weekly or monthly. Identifies key cells, or network elements
for optimisation and planning technicians to focus their energies
System design and dimensioning:
- Dimensions network elements, warning where bottle necks will
occur, and when
- Optimises network dimensioning for 2, 2.5,3G networks
- Provides hardware forecasts for up to four years out, either to
card level parts list (vendor by vendor), or a a strategic / budgetary
level
- Dimensions network elements (regionally, morphology or based upon
known cell and traffic distribution
- Identifies when new sites are required and where
- Prior to identifying as new site, the model will identify if
traffic congestion is due to local traffic, or is being generated “out
of cell” and reports accordingly
- Network element dimensioning for voice and data traffic channels
for GSM. GPRS, EDGE and UMTS.
Monthly forecast of hardware upgrades:
- Parts list down to card level for short term and higher level (as
required) for longer term
- Traffic and services
- Tariff and service planning
- Allows different service sets and QOS on a cell by cell and
service by service basis
- Distributes traffic to a known traffic distribution and can be
modified on a 'pixel by pixel basis'
- Service rollout planning
- Allows different bearers and bearer combinations to be modeled and
optimised
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