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What's new in Planet 5.3?What's new in Planet 5.3?

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Mentum Profile

Mentum is the global leader* in network planning software

Solutions allow wireless operators to efficiently design andoptimize access and backhaul networks

Headquartered in Paris and with offices in Dallas, Ottawa,

Stockholm, Hong Kong and Tokyo Over 375 customers in 120 countries

Ottawa

Global Product

Development &

Marketing Center

Dallas

Americas Region

Sales Office

Paris

Global Headquarters /

EMEA Regional Sales

Office

Tokyo

Japan Sales Office

Hong Kong

APAC Regional Sales

Office

Stockholm

EMEA R&D Center

* Analysys Mason Network planning outlook 2010, June 2010, M. Mortensen



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Introduction

General Availability May 30th of 2011

Product Licensing and Packaging

Large focus on Automatic Network Planning package

Automatic Cell Planning

Single Site Optimization

RF tools improvements

Neighbor Plan

Traffic Map

Interference Matrix

LTE enhancements

Propagation and Analyses

Data Management

Miscellaneous



Product Licensing &Product Licensing &

PackagingPackaging



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Product Licensing & Packaging

Mentum Planet 5.3 Licensing & Packaging



Automatic NetworkAutomatic Network

PlanningPlanning



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Automatic Network Planning

Automatic SitePlacement


Automatic Cell Planning Site selection

Site Optimization

AutomatedCell Planning

AutomatedSite Selection

AutomatedSite

Placement

Single SiteOptimization



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Supported technologies

LTE FDD

LTE TDD

Cdma2000

Multi-technology optimizations

Fast and Scalable

Native 64-bit support

Multi-threaded

Full integration with Planet

Ease of use



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Support for static or dynamic cell loads

Support for:

Repeaters

Split sectors / DAS

Shared antennas

Graphical User Interface and Reports

Within Planet, using report previewer

Including ordering of changes and selection of sites

Ability to commute licenses



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Optimization Goals

Computations in linewith Planet analysescomputation

LTE spectral efficiencygoal

Unique to Planet

To ensure themaximization of

throughput

Optimization Goals

Cdma2000 - 1xRTT /

EVDOLTE FDD and TDD

Pilot Ec

Pilot Ec/Io

1st - Nth Signal Strength

Reverse Signal Strength

Capacity

RSRP

RSRQ

Reference Signal CINR

Downlink Data CINR

Spectral Efficiency

Capacity

Uplink Signal Strength

O ptimization Goals



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ACP Improvements in mP 5.4

Support for all technologies

WiMAX TDD

WCDMA/HSPA

GSM

TDMA/FDMA

Antenna height optimization

Based on feedback from customers



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Designed for

Network expansion scenarios where new sites areadded for coverage or capacity

Or to optimize an existing site in a fast manner

Support for all the technologies available inMentum Planet 5.3

Optimizations based on

Generic goals (e.g. coverage, interference)

Or Optimization Profiles



RF ToolsRF Tools



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Neighbor Planning

Complete re-design of Neighbor ListManagement

Active neighbor

relationships stored insites

Inactive neighbor plansstored as files

Definition of NeighborBlack List S ite Editor ± Neighbour Lists



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Neighbor Planning

New algorithm forNeighbor Listgeneration

Intra-technology

Inter-carrier

Cdma2000

WCDMA

LTE FDD/TDD

Inter-technology

GSM <-> WCDMA

LTE -> Cdma2000

Neighbour Plan Generator



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Neighbor Plan Management

Ability to import/export neighbor plan

Neighbor Plan comparison

Apply neighbor plan

Save neighbor plan Neighbor Plan Optimization

Update of existing neighbor plan

Selection of sectors to consider and to optimize

Ability to keep existing neighbor relationships

Analysis of existing neighbor plan



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Traffic Maps in mP 5.3

Improved GUI andWorkflows

Service coverageprobabilities

Indoor / outdoor trafficratio, including supportfor 3D buildings data

T raffic Map Generator - General



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Traffic Maps 3D Buildings

Ability for users toleverage MapInfo 3Dbuildings data

Ability for users todefine outdoor/indoortraffic ratio (e.g. 70 %indoor 30 % outdoor)

Per building types

and/or per buildingweights

T raffic Map Indoor/ Outdoor Ratio



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InterferenceMatrix Generator

Support for serviceprobabilities

No need for non bestserver settings anymore

Helps with stackedsectors

Support for HCL

Selection of environment

Best Server algorithmstill supported

Interference Matrix Generator



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Carrier and Code Reuse Viewer

New tool to visualize the reuse of carriers and orsector identifiers

Available for all technologies

Scrambling Codes for WCDMA

Channel and Preamble for WiMAX

PCID for LTE

Etc.

Ability to also view current neighbors

Ability to define best server grid



LTE EnhancementsLTE Enhancements



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Automatic MIMO Switching

Ability to select manualor optimal AutomaticMIMO SwitchingThreshold

Automatic selection No throughput decrease

when moving fromdiversity to multiplexing

mode Optimized throughput

Automatic MIM O S witching



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Log Normal Fading (1)

Current modeling

Slow fading margin applied to Servers signal strengthonly

Pessimistic in areas where server and interferers are

strongly correlated New modeling option

Estimation of standard deviation of CINR

Based on correlation between signals

Angular and non-angular model supported More realistic than current modeling



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Log Normal Fading (2)

CINR Standard Deviation

Scenario CurrentModelling NewModelling Option

Noise limited areas

Standard deviation of

signal strength

Standard deviation of

signal strength

Interference fully

correlated with server 0 dB

Areas between co-site

sectors0 dB

Interference not

correlated with server

Based on correlation

between signals



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Miscellaneous Enhancements

Reference Coverage Probability based on:

Either RSRP

Or RSRQ

Uplink Data Rate

Currently based on the whole carrier bandwidth

For a single subscriber in Mentum Planet 5.3

Ability to define maximum DL & UL Loads

Impact on Monte Carlo simulations

Limit resources that can be used



Propagation &Propagation &

AnalysesAnalyses



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Antenna Editor

Ability to group antennas (.paf, .pln, .msi, .dpa,.nsm, etc.) into single .paf file

E.g. e-tilt antennas defined in multiple dpa files => single.paf file

Multiple dpa files for different frequencies => single .paf file

Electrical Beam steering

Current modeling: one pattern per e-azimuth

New modeling: automatic rotation based on: E-azimuth defined in antenna system

E-azimuth defined in the antenna pattern



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Propagation Improvements

Replacement of .bin files by .ppf (Planet PredictionFormat)

Tiled format that allows better compression

Less disk space taken by prediction files

Air Predict propagation model

Multi-resolution PGM

Support for multiple Heights and Clutter files

Continuous coverage between areas with variousresolutions



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Antenna Tuning

Ability to modifyAntenna Horizontalpattern

For each antenna

system, based onantenna installation

Manual tuning supportin mP 5.3.

S ite Editor ± Antenna T uning



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Analyses Enhancements

Multi-threaded WiMAX and LTE analyses

Feature not licensed

Ability to generate analyses layers on a temporarydrive

This can lead to big enhancements when using an SSDdrive

Available for all technologies



Data ManagementData Management



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Data Management

Migration of mCP projects

WCDMA/HSPA

LTE FDD

LTE TDD

Sector selection upon import

Import/Export of Antenna Algorithms

Lazy loading of Tabular editor

Import of TEMS Investigation files All technologies



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Custom Attributes

Ability to define customattributes within Planet

No need of DM

Custom attributes for

Sites, sectors, basestation, transceivers,antenna systems, etc.

Support for strings,

integers, enums, etc. Custom attributes not

shared within DM

C ustom Attributes



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Site Set Comparison

Site set comparison

Ability to viewdifferences only

Ability to view

similarities only Allows users to

compare sitesconfiguration at

different dates Also available upon

import of data

S ite S et C omparison



MiscellaneousMiscellaneous



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New Project Explorer

New component basedon WindowsPresentationFoundation

Better performance

Less memory usage

Support for Unicode

Picture underdevelopment



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Frequency Sub-Bands

Ability to define sub-bands within frequencybands

Support for

GSM

TDMA/FDMA

Cdma2000

WCDMA

Support for ARFCN forGSM

Network S ettings ± Frequency S ub-Bands



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Grid Processing Tool

Ability to concatenatemultiple MapInfonumeric and classifiedgrids

Grid Processing T ool



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Miscellaneous

Traffic Analysis and Dimensioning tool

TDMA/FDMA and GSM

Multi-column Graphs in report previewer

Other system interference for Cdma2000 andWCDMA analyses and MC simulations

MapInfo 10.5.2

Ability to set different penetration losses for

different frequency bands TM from fixed subs table



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Migration

Planet migrator integrated to Planet

No need to use external migrator anymore

Co-existence of Data Manager Server 5.3 and DataManager of previous version

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