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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 wave propagation and radio network planning.
During the last 11 years, AWE
Communications has accompanied
the evolution
of
wireless and cellular mobile communications including the migration
from 2G via 3G to 4G cellular networks.
Together with strategic partners and
involved in multiple public funded
projects,
AWE Communications has developed different software tools for various
applications in the world of wireless communications.
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Today innovative propagation
models are combining high accuracy and short computation times.
Flexible network simulators for various air interfaces allow a detailed
prediction of the performance of a wireless network.
WinProp, the
main software suite of
AWE Communications,is a standard software in the world of
wireless
propagation and radio network planning. Furthermore, all propagation models of AWE
Communications are available as plug-ins
for all popular radio network planning tools.
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The headquarter of AWE
Communications is located
in Gaertringen and the R&D
and sales team are part of the Software
Center
in Boeblingen.
Both locations are in the south west of
Germany, close to Stuttgart,
the capital of Baden-Württemberg,
one of most innovative regions in
Europe. Boeblingen is also close to the northern part of the Black Forest,
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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 all propagation scenarios (incl. tunnel, satellites, vehicles,...)
and for all popular air interfaces.
Additional tools for the evaluation of the electromagnetic compatibility of
transmitter sites were 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 conversion
of building
databases or antenna patterns
are in the portfolio of AWE
Communications.
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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During the last years the company grew
significantly and in the
meantime many customers and partners aroud the world rely on the products and services of AWE
Communications.
Today all employees of AWE
Communications help to improve the software
tools, products and services. And they are very
engaged to preserve the current status of the company: To be one of
the leaders for radio network
planning and wave propagation in the global wireless market.
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Further activities
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Besides
the above mentioned software products, AWE Communications 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).
- Participation in public funded projects (European or
national level)
- Simulation of wave propagation or
planning of
wireless networks for customers not very familiar with these topics.
- 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 software
products and to general aspects of wireless
communications
- EMC
Workshops
dealing with health issues
due to the radiation of electromagnetic waves
- Tutorials
at international conferences
- Lectures
about mobile communications at universities (co-funding of lectures).
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Staff
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Many young scientists write their
Master
thesis or
PhD thesis in cooperation with AWE Communications. After they finished
their scientific work, they joined the company and contributed their
individual experience and knowledge to expand the activities of
the AWE Communications.
The employees of AWE Communications
can rely on an excellent scientific
knowledge in the area of wave propagation phenomena and in the
architectures of wireless communication networks.
This is very important especially in customer-specific developments.
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