deciBel Planner

deciBel Planner for Windows NT/98/95 is the first RF propagation modeling and network planning application for the wireless telecommunications industry to combine comprehensive RF propagation tools with spatial analysis features in one scalable desktop environment. Fully integrated with MapInfo Professional, deciBel Planner makes the critical link between RF engineering and business intelligence data with ease, helping cellular/PCS, broadband, and paging companies build and optimize network coverage more efficiently than ever before.

Key Advantages

Accuracy

deciBel Planner boasts a strong propagation tool set built around FCC-mandated models and its flagship CRC Predict algorithm, a diffraction method that considers detailed terrain models, land use data, and tropospheric scatter. In delivering an advanced propagation solution, deciBel Planner allows engineers to choose from a range of empirical and deterministic industry-standard propagation algorithms, or to create blended models within a network build, for better accuracy in network coverage prediction.

Integration

deciBel Planner delivers RF engineering from a GIS perspective, making it possible to include spatial factors such as terrain and land use data in modeling propagation. As well, deciBel Planner facilitates the sharing of information across an organization via MapInfo Professional so that decision makers in key departments have access to mission-critical network information.

Flexible Network Modeling

deciBel Planner 2.0 offers a complete network planning system with inherent Cellular/PCS capabilities. Further network analysis modules are being developed with comprehensive sets of parameters to build new or optimize existing networks. The CDMA module is now available, with Fixed Wireless and Paging modules under development.

Northwood Technologies Inc., 43 Auriga Drive, Nepean, ON K2E 7Y8. Tel: 613-224-2020; Fax: 613-224-2785.