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7th February 2005 - CTS (Cril Telecom Software), a
leading provider of network planning and optimisation
tools and spectrum management systems and services,
today announces a new contract with O2 Ireland for its
Ellipse Microwave Planning Tool Suite.
The contract with O2 includes several Ellipse Microwave
licences, installation, existing technical data migration,
training, and maintenance.
O2 chose the Ellipse Microwave Planning tool from CTS
after a rigorous technical and quality evaluation of
different transmission planning tools. O2 Ireland will
use Ellipse Microwave for the planning and optimisation
of its complete national radio transmission network.
Oliver Coughlan, Director of Technology at O2 Ireland
said: “We chose the Ellipse Microwave Planning
tool from CTS as the planning and optimisation functions
and ergonomics of the tool are specifically designed
for the working methods and needs of the microwave planning
engineer. We also wanted a professional tool with a
strong roadmap and maintenance including the capability
for FWA planning. CTS are a very proactive company and
we will benefit from all the latest product developments,
such as automatic channel assignment."
The automatic channel assignment will enable the microwave
engineer to considerably speed up the process of determining
the optimal frequency per designed link. After the automatic
assignment, the engineer has the option to double-check
manually.
Ellipse also features advanced interference calculation
tools that allow O2 to use spectrum within the attributed
frequency bands more efficiently over the entire transmission
network.
The Ellipse Microwave Planning application is based
on thin-client architecture.
Morgan Zimmermann, Sales Director at CTS said: “We
are happy to count such an innovative and progressive
mobile operator such as O2 Ireland amongst our customers."
O2 is the second mobile operator in Ireland with forty
percent market share, which constitutes 1,39 million
subscribers. It grew its customer base by eleven percent
until the end of March 2004.
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