Ascom TEMS DISCOVERY Brochure

TEMS™ DISCOVERY

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aDVanCED POST-PROCESSInG

™

TEMS

Discovery is a highly configurable

and user-friendly post-processing

solution for air interface measurement

data. It allows engineers to easily assess

wireless performance and quickly

pinpoint network problems.

Available in Basic and Professional

packages, TEMS Discovery has a unique

user interface and advanced functionality

that allow users to perform post-

processing in the way that best

supports their own ways of working.

TEMS Discovery allows users to:

▪ Build customized scripts or choose pre-defined reports
▪ Perform complex analysis in a simple way
▪ Generate reports quickly and easily
▪ Collaborate across the organization through easy data sharing
▪ Analyze data from all major technologies, including LTE and WiMAX

Integrated Multi-Technology Platform

TEMS Discovery supports cdma2000, 1xEV, GSM/GPRS/EDGE, WCDMA,

HSDPA/HSUPA/HSPA+, TD-SCDMA, WiMAX, and LTE in a single integrated

platform, enabling truly seamless inter-RAT analysis, multi-RAT benchmark-

ing, and easy evolution into any emerging technologies.

Support for your Ways of Working

TEMS Discovery is available in two separate packages to fulfill your needs:

the Basic package which is available in conjunction with TEMS Investigation,

and the stand-alone TEMS Discovery Professional version. From TEMS Discovery

Professional, users can interact with all data used for optimizing a wireless

network, such as:

▪ Measurement data
▪ Network configuration data, including neighbor list data and an

unlimited number of parameters

▪ Antenna pattern data
▪ Geographical data, such as vector data, terrain elevation data, and aerial

images

▪ Integrated Google Maps

™

or Microsoft® Bing Map

▪ Online GIS data downloading
▪ Support of drive test data from other Ascom Network Testing products

such as TEMS Investigation and QVoice Companion as well as from

Anite’s Nemo product

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Rich Data Display

Satellite maps (Google Maps

™

or Microsoft® Bing Map) are fully inte-

grated and synchronized with other presentation windows in TEMS

Discovery Professional. Data is presented in map views, summary message

views, detailed message views, time charts, table views, metric correlation

views, histograms, reports, and drill-down point detail views.

All views in TEMS Discovery Professional are managed with tabs.

Layouts can be saved and restored. Different projects can be opened simul-

taneously. All time-sensitive views can be seamlessly synchronized. Users

are able to view multiple dimensions of data at any point of interest with

great ease, and automatic data playback is supported. Menu items and

toolbars are placed only in the relevant views to maximize effective screen

space. Many tasks can be done with a single click.

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Full Access to Information Elements

TEMS Discovery Professional supports comprehensive message decoding,

giving the user full access to information elements. Extracting the value of

a key information element (IE) from over-the-air layer 3 signaling mes-

sages is as simple as clicking the desired IE on the built-in IE explorer. The

user can select any group of information elements and display their values

on the message summary view, eliminating the need to check message

details one-by-one.

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Reliable and Robust Event Detection

Because of the easy access to IEs in the over-the-air signaling mes-

sages, TEMS Discovery Professional provides hundreds of highly reliable and

robust sets of call-related events, as well as critical RF problem alerts. The

events and alerts can also be further categorized and grouped according to

certain user-defined attributes. Moreover, all of the events generated by

TEMS Investigation or other data collecting tools are also made available

for all display and report views.

Highly User-Configurable

With TEMS Discovery Professional, the user has the flexibility to con-

figure a wide range of items, from simple view layouts to sophisticated

report templates and user-defined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). One

reason for this flexibility is that all information elements in TEMS Discovery

Professional are readily available to users.

The Script Builder application allows users to easily define their own

events or alerts, or derive custom metrics (such as event counters, time

delay, or composite metrics) based on these decoded information elements.

The algorithms can then be shared with peers or standardized across the

organization.

Users can easily embed their preferences and knowledge of best

practices into TEMS Discovery Professional by defining parameters, displays,

and templates. The experience of optimization experts, advanced users, and

senior engineers can be captured within TEMS Discovery Professional and

shared as standard across the organization.

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Powerful Data Filtering and Binning

Data can be filtered by criteria including problem sets, geographical

location, data collection date, data processing date, network sector groups,

and user-defined metric-based conditions. Data binning options include

time, linear distance, and grid size. Heterogeneous binning is easy to achieve,

even across different regions.

Flexible Report Generation

TEMS Discovery Professional incorporates a powerful reporting mech-

anism that allows the user to customize and generate a variety of different

Microsoft

®

Excel-based report templates. Users can easily set up real time

monitoring, or schedule automatic processing of measurement data. Results

and summary reports can be automatically delivered via e-mail notification

to select groups of recipients.

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Unique Troubleshooting Features

TEMS Discovery Professional lets users troubleshoot rapidly with several

powerful features:

▪ Rich troubleshooting and analysis sets
▪ Rapid filtering by user-defined problem set
▪ Missing Neighbor Alerts
▪ Various critical RF condition alerts
▪ Graphical audit/editing of neighbors

Easy import of needed input

Network configuration data, parameters, and neighbor list data can

be easily imported into TEMS Discovery Professional. All parameters can be

displayed with color codes or labels, and it is possible to group or search by

one or multiple parameters. There are also several creative ways to associate

a drive test data point to serving sectors and neighbors. Multiple measure-

ment data sources, including scanned data and test mobile data, can be

imported and synchronized via a pre-defined format or a user-defined con-

figuration file.

Sophisticated Data Organization and Management

All processed data is saved in an efficient file structure. Data can be

instantly accessed, reorganized (in terms of such attributes as mobile ID

and functional labels), and re-combined to create an unlimited number of

composite data sets. Data can be easily archived and restored with its

structure intact. All data collected during different phases of the network

life cycle can be incrementally merged. Meanwhile, each of the raw test files

only needs to be processed once.

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Efficient Data Sharing

The processed data can be easily shared by multiple users across the

organization, avoiding duplication of work and improving productivity.

Extensive GIS Support

TEMS Discovery fully integrates Google Maps

™

. In addition, it supports

over 100 different GIS file formats for terrain elevation data, raster image

data, and vector files. Users can download free high-resolution aerial images

and terrain elevation data directly from the US Geological Service and

several GIS servers worldwide through TEMS Discovery Professional.

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High Speed Data Processing

Through sophisticated memory and file management, TEMS Discovery

Professional can quickly process large volumes of data. For even faster data

processing, a multi-computer distributed processing farm can easily be set up.

Extensive Output Capability

All metrics can be exported to a variety of output files, including text

files, MapInfo Mif/mid files, Google Earth

™

KML files, Adobe PDF files,

Microsoft Excel files, and image files (such as GeoTiff, tiff, bmp, gif, png, jpg,

and wmf).

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