AIRCOM International Launches Business Decision Suite.

New Solution Designed to Provide Operators with Scenario Planning Tools

DALLAS -- AIRCOM International (www.aircominternational.com), the leading independent mobile network planning and optimization consultancy, today announced the launch of their Business Decision Suite (BDS). AIRCOM BDS is a fully-integrated automated suite of combined AIRCOM products and services that has been specifically designed to address the unique challenges of multi-technology, multi-operator network requirements.

Wireless networks have been built over many years and are still undergoing constant expansion. Selecting new technologies, such as LTE or WiMAX, in order to introduce new services involves considering many factors such as existing data traffic demands, growth projections, location of current sites and potential users, core network capacities and financial constraints.

"As overall business operation costs continue to fluctuate upon current financial conditions, major decisions such as introducing new technologies need careful consideration," said Marty Smuin, president of the Americas, AIRCOM International. "BDS is a cost-effective solution we can offer operators to help with scenario planning and assessing their possible infrastructure needs."

AIRCOM BDS includes the following key features, which can operate independently or integrated together:

* Business Rules and Financial Analysis Modules: A feature enabling a range of assigned business rules, delivering the optimum solution to meet given objectives, while also providing NPV, OPEX and CAPEX reports.

* Transmission Planning: Network information for cost effective routing and capacity planning for selected shared sites.

* Multi-Technology Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN): Site database featuring multiple logical, physical, location and network views of the same network site.

* Multi-Technology Co-Located Sites: A separation of physical and logistical attributes to clearly display co-located sites.

* Multi-Technology Band Antennas and Antenna Sharing: Frequency and electrical tilt patterns, enabling the choice of the correct antenna from multiple variants and MIMO implementation. Antenna sharing helps avoid the duplication of data and possible synchronization issues.

* Resource Modeling: Modeling of common radio resource management (CRRM) for shared networks.

* Filtering: Displaying lists of network elements, allowing easier analysis of RAN networks.

* Security and Object Permissions: Allowing administrators complete flexibility and control of multi-operator sharing architecture.

AIRCOM BDS provides integrated capability in the areas of network planning, optimization, configuration and performance management while allowing for the utilization of automation for the consolidation of both radio and transmission planning and the variances of business rules.

About AIRCOM

AIRCOM is an independent provider of network and data management tools and services. The company specializes in end-to-end network planning, sharing, outsourcing and OSS optimization for IP and cellular networks.

Headquartered in the UK with offices in 18 countries, AIRCOM has more than 10 years' experience across 131 countries for over half the world's mobile operators, including more than 3.5 million man hours working on 3G networks alone. Every day 19 out of the 20 top global operators depend upon AIRCOM's tools and consultants to improve the coverage and customer experience for more than 1.1 billion subscribers.

AIRCOM continues to grow its customer base each year, offering advice, training and support services, backed by high performance tools designed to deliver real benefits for both subscribers and operators.