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TEMS™ VISUALIZATION

BRIDGING THE OPTIMIZATION GAP

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SEE YOUR NETWORK IN A WHOLE NEW WAY

TEMS Visualization Professional is

revolutionizing the way network

operators troubleshoot their

networks, enabling them to find

problems that were impossible to

pinpoint before.

TEMS Visualization Professional

provides this ability by analyzing

event-based data generated by the

infrastructure.

The optimization gap

TEMS Visualization Professional processes event-based data, analyzing 

and organizing it so that it can be used for network optimization. Operators 

have easy  access  to comprehensive  information  based on  measurement 

results and call events, all the way  down  to  the  individual  call  level.  This 

information can be used for troubleshooting, monitoring, and verifying net-

work functionality.

This ability to look at real individual call data from  the infrastructure 

side bridges the gap between ordinary Performance Management systems 

and traditional drive testing. While Performance Management tools provide 

powerful statistical and trending functionality, and drive test tools capture 

a specific slice of the network in great detail, TEMS Visualization Professional 

gives a closer look at every call from every mobile in the network.

TEMS Visualization Professional is designed to be installed and run on 

a single machine. The TEMS Visualization Enterprise solution is also available. 

This utilizes dedicated servers for the data processing with many clients 

able to connect to the centralized data storage.

Benefits

▪ Trap, track, and eradicate problems based on sequences and specific phone 

models.

▪ Understand network problems by viewing the full details of calls made in 

the network – all calls, all phones.

▪ Drill down into subscriber issues easily using powerful filtering capabilities 

and fast browsing functions.

Key features

▪ Processing of event-based data from both WCDMA and GSM networks
▪ Display of full details for all calls on networks with Ericsson infrastructure
▪ Easy optimization of today’s very complex networks with built-in

optimization functionality

▪ Direct import of network configuration data from OSS-RC through CNAI 

and BulkCM

▪ IRAT Call Tracing using UETR and MTR
▪ Automated task management

TEMS™ VISUALIZATION 7.2 PROFESSIONAL

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Call Event Analyzer

The Call Event Analyzer makes every call within the recorded cell set 

available for detailed analysis. It allows the operator to see the major events 

associated with a particular call in a history view. Using powerful filtering 

and sorting functions, it displays the flow of handovers as either an event 

list  or  plotted  on  a  map.  Calls  with  abnormal  events  (dropped,  blocked, 

handover failure, etc.) are easily identified.

TEMS Visualization  Professional works with  data gat hered by the 

Ericsson OSS-RC. Supported formats are  GPEH and UETR for WCDMA net-

works , and R-PMO, MTR, and CTR for GSM. TEMS Visualization Professional 

is compatible with the newest enh ancements a dded  on the event side 

for both technologies. TEMS Visualizatio n Professional follows calls over 

BSC borders, allowing the user to anal yze Intra-BSC handovers and follow 

all calls mad e in  the recording area. It is now also possib le to trace calls 

between  WCDMA and GSM.

By using TEMS Visualization, operators can do the following, and much 

more: 

▪ Optimize daily worst cells. 
▪ Validate channel allocation (e.g. AMR, overlaid/underlaid optimization).
▪ Filter out calls originating from a selected cell and follow the movement

of each call.

▪ Find the location of dropped calls by following the progression of 

serving cells.

▪ Optimize WCDMA neighbor plans.
▪ Identify problems where only one link suffered from poor quality

(uplink and downlink measurement data are available in the tool).

▪ Determine poorly performing mobiles or mobile types.
▪ Analyze problems dependent on response time using the time

difference histogram feature.

In  addition,  it  is  easy  for  the  operator  to  follow  the  events,  radio 

environment, and graphical presentation of the serving cell for every call. 

This helps operators identify the real reasons for dropped calls, understand 

traffic patterns, find missing neighbors, identify ping-pong handover areas, 

and perform a host of other optimization activities.

For WCDMA, it is also possible to keep track of the signaling between 

the mobile and the core network. Selected information elements are de-

coded such as the cause value for any location or routing area update reject.