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Company
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AWE Communications was founded in
1998 as a spin off from the Institute of Radio Frequency Technology at the University of Stuttgart.
Since these early days, the
main focus of AWE Communications was the development of software tools
for the planning and analysis of wireless and mobile communication
networks.
During the last years, AWE Communications has accompanied the evolution
of
wireless and cellular mobile communications including the migration
from 2G to 3G cellular networks. Together with partners,
AWE Communications developed many software tools which contributed
significantly to the success of the partners
and customers in the strong competition
in the world of wireless communications.
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Today, highly innovative propagation
models are combining high accuracy and short computation times. WinProp, the main software suite of
AWE Communications,is now a standard software in the world of wireless
propagation and radio network planning.
The headquarter of AWE Communications is
located in Gaertringen, which is in the south west of Germany, close to
Stuttgart,
the capital of Baden-Württemberg, one of most innovative regions in
Europe. The R&D and sales team of AWE Communications moved to the Software Center
in Boeblingen (8 km distance to Gaertringen). Both locations are in the northern part of the Black Forest,
one of the most attractive and famous sightseeing areas in Germany.
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Main Activities
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Started
with propagation models for rural, urban, and indoor scenarios, AWE
Communications is now offering the whole bandwidth of software products
for the simulation and planning of wireless networks including dynamic system simulators and
network optimizers. Additional tools for the evaluation of the electromagnetic compatibility of
transmitter sites have been designed to support cellular network
operators and OEMs during the approval of their sites.
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Besides these RF software tools also
traffic simulators and
tools for the handling of building
databases or antenna patterns
are in the portfolio of AWE
Communications. Together with the huge number of available converters (for
databases, antenna patterns, and prediction results), the tools of AWE
Communications are used all over the world where highly accurate
prediction models and network planning tools are needed.
Products of AWE Communications combine high performance algorithms for
the computation with easy-to-use interfaces for the user. In the vision
of AWE Communications it makes no sense to improve only the algorithms
- the typical user
and not only the expert should be able to work efficiently with the
tools.
Therefore a significant effort is spent on the improvement of the
handling
of the software tools.
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Further activities
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Besides
the above mentioned software products, the company is also engaged in
further business
areas:
- Customer specific R&D projects in the area
of mobile communications (development of individual and
customer-defined software modules based on the products of AWE
Communications).
- Simulation of wave propagation or planning of
wireless networks for customers not familiar with these topics (e.g.
the communications network for the police in a city,...).
- Scientific
publications on international conferences
- Additional services
related to wave propagation, radio network planning and conversion of databases
- Participating in the European COST programs (Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research) to stimulate and
coordinate research activities in the EU in the fields of wave
propagation and radio network planning.
- Education
- Seminars
related to the software
products of AWE Communications and to general aspects of wireless
communications
- EMC Workshops
for the public with contributions to the discussion about health issues
and radiation of electromagnetic waves
- Tutorials
at international conferences
- Lectures
about mobile communications at universities (co-funding of lectures).
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