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News around AWE Communications and WinProp in 2008/2007:



Rockwell Collins, focused on smart communications and aviation electronics solutions, selected WinProp for the modeling of wave propagation in rural, urban, and indoor scenarios.




RaySat Broadcasting Inc., a leading US based manufacturer and supplier of in-motion, low-profile, phased-array satellite antennas for the commercial, railway, OEM and aftermarket automotive industries, selected WinProp for the evaluation of the satellite coverage in US cities.
Satellite signals are blocked due to obstacles (e.g. buildings, hills, vegetation,...). By using the fast 3D ray tracing of WinProp an accurate analysis of the satellite coverage based on the evaluation of 3D urban vector building data (incl. topograpghy) is feasible. This helps to reduce costs for time-consuming and expensive measurements.




The WinProp Seminars are offered to all our customers and to interested companies around the world.
After the significant growth of customers in East Asia during the year 2007, the seminar is now offered for the first time in the South East Asia region (since 2005 seminars were already offered with our distributor Couei in Japan, but the South East Asia region was not served up to now).
The Technical University of Melaka hosts the Seminar for two days in April 2008 in Melaka, Malaysia.




AWE Communications is partner in the J-ORTIGIA project (co-funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), see official press-release) which aims at providing DVB-SH technology trials in Spain, Italy, and Japan between April 2008 and March 2009.
In the framework of this project AWE Communications will provide the coverage planning of the different trial networks and will refine the
DVB-SH module of the WinProp radio network planning suite. 




 



The cellular network operator UMC (Ukrainian Mobile Communications) selected the WinProp Propagation Plug-In for the Atoll radio network planning tool from Forsk to increase the accuracy of the prediction especially in urban scenarios.





Net Technologies, offering services for GSM, UMTS, WiMAX, and WiFi in Greece, Balkans, and Middle-East, selected WinProp for the planning of WiMAX networks.





The semi-deterministic Dominant Path Model now offers a new and enhanced auto tuning capability. This feature allows the automatic determination of the ‘best’ propagation model settings (e.g. diffraction loss, path loss exponents) based on measurement data.
The auto tuning feature is now also available in the new update of the propagation plug-in for Aircom Enterprise
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The ESA (European Space Agency) extended the successful ORTIGIA project to the next phase (CCN 2).
In the framework of the extended
ORTIGIA project AWE Communications provides radio network planning activities for the DVB-SH trial network run by Fraunhofer IIS in the Erlangen area.




 


Different European universities selected WinProp  V7E (Educational Release) for their research and educational activities. The full set of features (identical to V7.40) combined with a significant discount for the V7E makes this package very attractive for universities.
Among the universities were the
RWTH Aachen (Germany), the National Technical University of Athens (Greece), the University of Beira Interior (Portugal), the University of Cartagena (Spain), the Universiteit Gent (Belgium), the University of L'Aquila (Italy), the Institute Jo¸ef Stefan in Ljublijana (Slovenija), the University of Lille (France), and the University of Piraeus (Greece). 


 


After purchasing a first license of WinProp in October 2007, the Korean Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute ETRI now increased the number of licenses (after evaluating the software, WinProp's sophisticated indoor propagation models convinced the engineers in Korea and so they decided to increase their number of licenses). 



AWE Communications was again very successful in 2007. The company was able to increase significantly the revenue and the number of licenses sold to new customers.
Compared to 2006, the revenue grew in 2007 approx. 14% and many new customers selected the innovative propagation models of the WinProp software suite.
This growth in revenue and  licenses helped AWE Communications to strengthen its position as the world market leader for wave propagation models.
(Example: In 2007 more than 100 licenses of the propagation engine for the iBwave RF-vu suite were sold).



The new version V7.40 of WinProp was released. It includes many new features like a new module for WiMAX network planning, a MIMO post processor, a new time-variant propagation mode, a new DXF/DWG CAD data converter, an accelerated DPM propagation model, a DVB-H network planning module, and many more features.


A short description of the new features is available for download.


 


Polkomtel S.A. carried out an intensive trial campaign of urban coverage prediction models available as plug-in for the Atoll radio network planning tool from Forsk. The WinProp plug-in was ranked number one as it provides very fast and highly accurate wave propagation models for urban scenarios based on the evaluation of 3D building vector data. Further criteria evaluated support and product maturity as well as the further product evolution.

Official Press Release available for download.




 


In the framework of the ORTIGIA project AWE provides input concerning radio network planning to the editors of the ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) DVB-SH Implementation Guidelines.
This new DVB-SH standard (Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite to Handheld) aims to provide multimedia services to the mobile user on a cost-effective way by the interworking of satellite systems with terrestrial networks.






iBwave Solutions Inc. released version 4.0 of the radio network planning tool RF-vu which uses the propagation engine of AWE Communications with the latest and most popular indoor wave propagation models of AWE Communications.
The new propagation plug-in was improved in terms of accuracy, prediction time and robustness against errors in vector building databases.






AWE Communications presents WinProp at the 2nd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) in Edinburgh, UK between Nov 11 and Nov 16, 2007. 

Besides the exhibition AWE Communications will also presents a scientific paper related to high resolution spatial channel impulse responses in indoor scenarios.



The German Research Institute Fraunhofer Gesellschaft selected WinProp for a detailed modeling of wireless communications in indoor environments.
For rural propagation analysis in VHF and UHF frequency band, the German engineering company GeoConcept selected WinProp.



 


A new version of the wave propagation plug-in for Aircom Enterprise is released. The new plug-in containes enhanced propagation models for rural, suburban, and urban scenarios (incl. indoor coverage in CNP mode).
It is able to handle all kinds of scenarios within one simulation and considers urban vector buildings, topography and clutter/landusage data. Furthermore, the new multi scenario model is improved in terms of accuracy and prediction time to handle larger areas.
Additionally an auto-calibration functionality is available to tune and post-calibrate the model settings with measurement data.






 


October 2007
ETRI selects WinProp 

The Korean Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute ETRI selected WinProp with its sophisticated rural, urban, and indoor propagation models for detailed propagation modeling in complex scenarios.



 


AWE Communications presents a scientific paper at the 66th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference in Baltimore, USA between Sep 30th and Oct 3rd, 2007. The paper is related WiMAX network planning.

 

 


AWE Communications presents a scientific paper related to vehicular ad-hoc networks at the 1st IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications in Baltimore, USA between Sep 30th and Oct 1st, 2007.

 

 


The French ministry for defence selected WinProp propagation models for rural, urban, and indoor scenarios.


 


AWE Communications presents a scientific paper at the 18th annual Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications in Athens, Greece between Sep 3rd and 7th, 2007.

 

 


August 2007
Samsung se
lects 3D Ray Tracing and WiMAX Network planning

For the deeper understanding of the wireless radio channel, Samsung selected the highly accurate WinProp 3D Ray Tracing. This is especially important for MIMO channel modeling.

Besides the channel modeling, Samsung purchased additionally the WiMAX network planning module for the planning of WiMAX networks in rural and urban scenarios.  

 

 

 


August 2007
Transtel Engineering se
lects WinProp for the planning of radio networks

The telecom systems integrator Transtel Engineering from Singapore selects the WinProp software suite for the planning of a radio network on a huge petrol-chemical plant.

 

 


July 2007
Exhibition: Mobile Summit in Budapest (Hungary)

AWE Communications presents WinProp at the Mobile Summit in Budapest (Hungary) between July 1 and July 5, 2007. Impressions about the conference are available.

 

 

 

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