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News around AWE Communications and
WinProp in 2009:
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The new distributor of the software products of AWE
Communications for the North and South
American market will be Newfield
Wireless,
the leader in wireless network
performance improvement. Since 1995, Newfield
Wireless has supported numerous wireless
operators with network optimization, RF
model calibration, and path loss
measurements. Today Newfield's client list
includes major U.S. carriers and regional
operators.
Newfield owns a path loss
database for the entire United States
that can be used to tune RF models from
700 MHz to 2.5 GHz. This will
significantly improve the accuracy
of the new WinProp
releases.
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The new release of the WinProp
software tool allows the detailed radio
planning of OFDM broadcasting networks
(as DVB-H,
DVB-SH,
DVB-T,...) considering the
synchronisation aspect in SFN networks
as well as the influence of the guard
interval on the resulting signal and
interference power.
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A leading African
communications group providing mobile
communications and related services to
more than 30 million customers analyzes
the effects of MIMO in the cellular networks with
WinProp
and its propagation engines for
rural, urban,
indoor,
and CNP
(hybrid urban/indoor) scenarios.
Especially the ray-optical
propagation
models of WinProp allow a detailed
analysis of the mobile radio channel and
help to understand the effects of the MIMO
technology.
After the sucess in 2008, AWE
Communications has been selling Winprop
in 2009 again worldwide in Africa,
America (North & South), Asia, and
Europe. Even the financial crisis was
not able to stop the success of WinProp
all over the globe.
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TuMan,
the graphical editor for tunnel
scenarios, was extended to simplify the
work with leaky feeder cables.
Additionally some CAD tools were added
to the TuMan. Additionally, all
prediction results computed in the
tunnel can now be displayed in ProMan's
2D result view if they are horizontally
oriented.
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The new release of the educational
version of WinProp convinced again
many universities. Among them were the University
of L'Aquila in Italy as well as
the University
of Lancaster in UK.
AWE Communications has been engaged in
the support for universities for many
years and nearly all universities
working in the wireless domain are using
WinProp today.
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AWE Communications released a new version of the
propagation plug-in for Aircom
Enterprise.
The plug-in is available for V6.0, V6.1,
and V6.2.
The new plug-in has various new and
enhanced features
and allows a significant reduction of
the computation time while obtaining
still a very high accuracy. These advantages
of the new WinProp
plug-in combined with an
easy-to-use interface make the plug-in
to a valuable extension for the Aircom
Enterprise suite.
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Winprop includes now the ITU-R
P 1546 propagation model.
The model is intended for tropospheric
radio circuits over land paths, sea
paths and/or mixed land-sea paths and it
is especially designed for the analysis
of terrestrial (broadcasting)
transmitters (effective antenna heights
less 3,000 m) in the frequency range
between 30 MHz and 3000 MHz.
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Acciona, a leader in the creation,
development and management of
infrastructure, energy and water,
selected WinProp's
propagation
engine for tunnel
scenarios to
analyze the propagation in tunnels and
to improve the coverage in long tunnels.
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The new release of the propagation
plug-in for the radio network
planning tool Atoll was tested by two
cellular network operators: BWC
(BaykalWestCom) in Russia and UNT
(Ukraine Newest Technologies) in
Ukraine. Both decided to select the
WinProp propagation
plug-in to improve their accuracy
in the network planning.
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The public
funded project MIMOWA
(MIMO
for Wireless
Access),
focused on the evolution of the MIMO
technology for LTE,
WiMAX,
and WiFi,
was successfully completed.
Within MIMOWA AWE
Communications extended its software
suite WinProp
with MIMO functionalities to determine
the gains due to MIMO in wireless
networks.
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The newest release of
Winprop's educational
version convinced many
universities in Europe. Among them are
the universities in Agder (Norway),
Bruxelles (Belgium), Gabrovo (Bulgaria),
and Cluj-Napoca (Romania).
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AWE Communications and Davlin,
the distributor
of Winprop for the Chinese market, acquired
a new customer:
Huawei, a leader in providing next
generation telecommunications networks
serving 36 of the world's top 50 network
operators (approx. one billion users) selected WinProp
for the LTE
network planning and simulation.
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The J-ORTIGIA project, co-funded by the European
Space Agency, is aimed at developing the practical
aspect of Digital Video Broadcast
Satellite to Handheld (DVB-SH)
technology. The pilot networks
rolled-out in Italy, Spain and Japan in
the frame of the J-ORTIGIA project constituted a unique
opportunity to integrate, test and
measure an end-to-end DVB-SH system.
AWE Communications
provided the coverage planning of the
different trial networks and refined the
DVB-SH module of the WinProp
radio network planning suite.
The fruitful
results obtained during those campaigns
allowed the approval of the Phase 3 of
the J-ORTIGIA project, starting April 2009
during which full DVB-SHA and DVB-SHB
configurations will be tested, using the
W2A S-band satellite successfully
launched by Eutelsat on April 3rd 2009.
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The European Conference on
Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
will be hosted in March 2009 in Berlin,
Germany.
AWE Communications will present the
newest release of WinProp at the exhibition of EuCAP.
Besides the exhibition, two scientific
papers related to WinProp and MIMO
will be presented at the conference. One
by AWE Communications and one by TNO,
a Dutch research center and customer
of AWE Communications.
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The project PLATON (PLAnning
of ConnecTivity in SensOr Networks)
focuses
on
the
evolution
of
WinProp
towards
sensor
and
MESH
networks.
PLATON
is
scheduled
for
24 months and is co-funded
by the German
Ministry of Research.
Within PLATON, WinProp will be extended
with new propagation models (for sensor
and MESH networks) and with a
connectivity simulator for MESH
networks.
A German university in Dresden will make
signal measurements in sensor networks
and these measurements will be used to
optimize the accuracy of the new
propagation models.
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RF-vu from iBwave, a
state-of-the-art planning tool for
indoor networks and powered by the propagation
engine of AWE Communications, is
now able to import WinProp's outdoor
predictions.
Read the press
release for further information.
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OFDM networks like WiMAX
or LTE
are becoming more and more important. AWE Communications will
extended the OFDM system simulator of
WinProp to include the latest evolutions
of WiMAX
and LTE
within the
framework of the public
funded project SIMPLON (SIMulator
for
PLanning
of OFDM
Networks).
SIMPLON is scheduled for 18 months and
co-funded by the
German
Ministry of Research.
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Presentation
of the Company
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Brochure
with an overview about the products
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Brochure with
key
facts about AWE Communications
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the Company
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