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Important Milestones
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Together with many partners, AWE
Communications developed innovative and flexible software tools. WinProp,
the software suite of AWE Communications is today a standard software
in the world of wireless propagation and radio network planning. During the last years various new and innovative
features were added to WinProp. If you are interested in the evolution
of WinProp, you should contact us to get a
roadmap of our software development activities.
The feedback of the customers
of AWE Communications during the
last years helped to improve the products
continuously. Many inventions of AWE Communications influenced the
world of propagation and network analysis significantly and are today
state-of-the-art for all commercial network planning tools.
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Among the most important milestones are:
2008
See the newsticker of 2008 to get
further information about all important events in 2008.
The
three highlights in 2008 were:
- J-ORTIGIA.project started with extensive
measurement campaigns in Italy, Spain and Japan.
- Many
new customers on all continents (Africa, America
(North & South), Asia, Australia, and Europe). Among them are
multiple
operators (BWC, UMC, Solaris Mobile, TdF,...) as well as OEMs
(Qualcomm, Thomson, Leadcom,...) and universities.
- New
features: surface
predictions and arbitrary prediction planes in indoor propagation engine
as well as a totally new tunnel
propagation engine and tunnel database editor.
2007
See the newsticker of 2007 to get
further information about all important events in 2007.
The
three highlights in 2007 were:
2006
See the newsticker of 2006 to get
further information about all important events in 2006.
The
three highlights in 2006 were:
2005
2004
- Presentation
of the Dominant
Path
Prediction Model: For the first time the same propagation model can
be used for rural, urban, and indoor scenarios.
Additionally, the model is extremely fast, highly accurate and needs no
preprocessing of the database. This is a step into a new world of
propagation modeling - almost without any limitations.
- The public
funded project
MAESTRO is launched (funded by European Union in IST/FP6). 19
partners of the wireless industry are working together with AWE
Communications till 2007 on the development of 3G satellite multimedia
broadcasting systems (e.g. DVB-SH).
- With the DVB-SH
network simulator
AWE Communications enters into the domain of satellite and hybrid
(satellite & terrestrial)
network analysis. Propagation models for satellite
communication links are implemented as well as a system simulator
to
superpose
satellite and terrestrial signals. The simulator together with the
research
activities in the new satellite branch of AWE was presented to the
public
at the EMPS & ASMS 2004
in
Amsterdam.
2003
- AWE Communications expands again and
therefore moves with its R&D
and Sales team to the new location in Böblingen,
Germany.
- Release of
the HSDPA
module for the dynamic UMTS FDD
simulator. Simulation of packet switched traffic is now possible
(dynamically
generated IP packets, configuration by the user) - for UMTS-HSDPA and for
DCH in UMTS FDD.
- At the COST 273
conference in Barcelona,
AWE Communications offers for the first time a tutorial on a scientific conference (Content: "Wave
Propagation
and Radio Network Planning").
2002
- Localization
of mobile stations in cellular networks is a very hot topic in 2002 due
to the FCC regulations for the US market. AWE Communications and Siemens present an
extension of WinProp for the determination of the accuracy of different
positioning algorithms.
- Together with the partner
T-Mobile,
AWE
Communications starts a new series of EMC
workshops to inform the public about health issues in combination
with the radiation of electromagnetic waves (from cellular base
stations). The workshops
are offered nationwide and a huge interest leads to many presentations
all over Germany during the next years.
- Alcatel
asks AWE Communications to integrate the 3D Urban IRT into ATOLL/A9155.
- Presentation of joint research activities in
the field of urban wave
propagation with partner Nokia Reserach Center at
IEEE VTC
2002 in Vancouver, BC.
2001
- Combined Network
Planning (CNP): For the first time it is possible to combine urban
and indoor databases to compute the penetration into buildings
or to analyze transmitters located inside buildings and their
interaction
(incl. interference) with the outdoor network. Detailed indoor databases can be combined
with large urban databases to
one propagation scenario. This approach is still not
reached by any other commercial software product.
- Nokia
asks AWE Communications to integrate the 3D Urban IRT into Aircom
ENTERPRISE / Nokia
NetAct.
2000
- With the dynamic
UMTS network
simulator, AWE Communications makes the first step into the world
of
system simulation and network planning software. Due to the flexible
and
fast simulator, AWE Communications is able to sell the new network
products
successfully and to establish a second business division besides the
propagation
domain.
- WinProp is presented as innovative software
tool for wavepropagation on
the AP2000.
1999
- Extension of 3D Ray Tracing (with
preprocessing of the database) to indoor
scenarios => Indoor
3D IRT.
The high speed 3D Ray Tracing is now available also for indoor
scenarios.
- AWE Communications gets the best paper
award at the IEEE PIMRC conference
in Japan for the 3D IRT.
1998
- AWE Communications is founded.
- 3D Ray Tracing
with preprocessing of the database for urban scenarios => Urban 3D IRT
For the first time, 3D Ray Tracing is possible for larger areas
within a few seconds on a standard PC.
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