SIRADEL - Radio Propagation Software for Network Design, Planning and Optimisation

SIRADEL is a world-leading provider of geographical databases, propagation models and radio expertise for planning and optimising any radio networks worldwide.

As an independent subsidiary of Legendre financial group (€100 million sales revenue in 2004 fiscal year), SIRADEL can provide long-term professional tailored turnkey solutions according to customers' requirements in the wireless telecom and broadcast industry.

RADIO NETWORK OPTIMISATION EXPERTISE

With more than ten years' experience in the area of radio-wave propagation and digital mapping production, SIRADEL provides unique products and services suited to optimise the design of any radio networks working from 80MHz to a few GHz.

SIRADEL's know-how is maintained and further developed thanks to a wide range of R&D projects, from inside the company to national or international projects involving operators, equipment vendors and local authorities.

SIRADEL's solutions are already used worldwide to enhance the radio design of new operational radio networks like 3G, as well as TD SCDMA, Wifi, WiMAX, DVB-H, etc., by simulating new Quality of Service parameters related to the radio channel.

MOBILE AND FIXED RADIO NETWORK DESIGN, PLANNING AND OPTIMISATION

Thanks to the professional consulting services and training courses in the area of radio-wave propagation, as well as mobile and fixed network design and optimisation, SIRADEL can provide services at any step of the radio network access design:

Phase 1: pre-design:

• Digital maps with low resolutions
• Radio design by using tuned Volcano propagation models
• Pilote network survey
• Sites selection
• Network capacity / radio coverage analysis

Phase 2: radio planning:

• Digital maps combining with high and low resolutions
• Analogue / digital measurement campaigns
• Tuning propagation models
• Volcano propagation models embedded in radio planning tools
• Volcano training sessions
• Hot line and web support
• Radio planning assistance

Phase 3: optimisation:

• Digital maps update
• Digital measurement campaigns
• Volcano releases
• Interference level prediction / QoS expertise
• Radio parameters optimisation expertise

VOLCANO - RADIO NETWORK PLANNING SOFTWARE

Integrated in all leading radio planning tools, Volcano gathers an accurate range of propagation models, designed for coverage prediction for any wireless radio system, as well as point-to-point through analysis.

Volcano is currently used by radio engineers in charge of radio designs for 2G, 2.5G, 3G, PMR, Wifi, WiMAX and DVB-H radio networks.

Volcano features the following:

• Large range of accurate propagation models: macro (rural and urban); mini (suburban / urban / dense urban); micro (urban / dense urban); outdoor to indoor and indoor to outdoor
• Deterministic approach - only a few sets of radio measurements needed
• Fast and fully automated tuning
• Easy-to-use without being a propagation expert
• Multi-resolution digital maps management
• Country-wide down to city-wide propagation modelling

Volcano uses the following operating systems: Windows NT/2000/XP, Server 2000/2003 and Linux. Licence and deployment modes are as follows: standalone, server, commuter licence, terminal server and Citrix. Support and maintenance service includes an international hotline.

ABOUT SIRADEL

SIRADEL is a leading geo database producer, capable of delivering any type of data covering to any part of the world, whatever the required resolution and format.

SIRADEL has among the strongest significant production capacity for low and high resolution cartographic databases (DTM, DEM, land use, vectors and ortho-photos) by observing aerial photos or satellite imagery (Landsat, Spot, Ikonos, Quickbird, Aster, etc.). In 2004, SIRADEL delivered more than 1,800,000km² for the radio network planning market worldwide.