Announced the new version of EDX 7.4

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February 1, 2011
EDX Enhances Smart Grid Wireless Planning Tool
EDX Wireless releases advanced capacity studies for automated large
scale mesh network planning in its SignalMX® module
Eugene, OR, February 1, 2011 – EDX Wireless, a recognized leader for RF planning tools, announces the release of EDX® SignalMX v7.4. This release extends the EDX Large Scale Mesh Systems module for utility Smart Grid AMI systems to include studies for the analysis and planning of capacity constrained networks.
AMI mesh networks have varying rules for collector capacity and number of device connections. Capacity and device connections need to be taken into consideration within the mesh study to accurately design networks that conform to vendor’s requirements while meeting the overall system design goals for performance, reliability and cost. The SignalMX Constrained Capacity Analysis study allows the user to define collector capacity, number of repeater downstream devices, repeater chaining limits, and number of downstream meter devices. These limitations are applied to the mesh study and provide graphical and text outputs which rapidly identify areas of weak capacity. Based on the results of the capacity-constrained mesh analysis, additional collectors can be activated in these areas and the resultant capacity improvements quickly evaluated. The designer can create potential repeater candidates and then use the selection algorithm to choose the most useful repeaters. The designer can also interactively manipulate the repeater selections and quickly see how this affects meter connections.
In addition, this release includes redesigned route studies ideally suited for specialized utility and transportation radio network applications and several visualization enhancements include Microsoft Bing™ satellite or street map layers.
“An efficient, robust and cost effective Smart Grid Wireless network requires detailed planning," says Steve Webster, Director of product management at EDX. “We have worked closely with the utility and AMI industries to build SignalMX, and we are excited about the additional functionality we are bringing to bear as the needs of our Smart Grid customers and partners, continues to grow and evolve.”
The SignalMX add-on Module for EDX SignalPro is an advanced custom Smart Grid design tool that allows Utilities, Smart Grid Vendors and System Integrators to efficiently plan, deploy, and optimize Large Scale mesh and traditional AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) networks at every point in the system lifecycle. This ensures proper dimensioning, the most efficient network architecture, lowest cost deployment and most reliable operation. SignalMX supports the design of systems with hundreds of thousands of nodes and permits fast pre-sales layouts of meters and distributed access points. It provides RF-optimized automatic router selection and mesh analysis and supplies detailed reports of system performance, traffic, mesh vulnerabilities and critical mesh points.
These provide the engineer with essential information in the process of designing a robust, reliable and redundant Smart Grid network. SignalMX also simplifies the design and planning process by creating of professional layouts and coverage/performance diagrams which can be exported to industry standard GIS tools such as Google Earth®, MapInfo®, and ArcGIS®
About EDX Wireless LLC
Headquartered in Eugene, Oregon, EDX Wireless develops wireless Radio Frequency (RF) planning, performance visualization and design software. Our comprehensive range of wireless network planning tools are used by AMI companies, RF equipment manufacturers, smart meter providers and leading utilities in the deployment of Smart Grid wireless networks. EDX comprehensive and flexible suite of RF tools perform area-wide coverage/interference studies, point-to-multipoint studies, route studies, mesh studies, and detailed link analyses and system diagnostics for WiMAX, Wi-Fi, PCS/cellular, Zigbee and many other wireless systems Since 1985, EDX customers have relied on SignalPro®, the flexible and comprehensive suite of RF planning tools for designing wireless communications networks, including Smart Grid and AMI deployment and planning, utilities (including gas, water, electric and oil), transportation, broadband wireless, public safety, cellular network deployment and other mobile wireless systems. The result of over 25 years of development effort, SignalPro is used by thousands of engineers in over 60 countries and is the tool of choice for designing accurate, reliable and scaleable RF networks, worldwide.

we expect more ........

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[besoeso]

anyone do have the installer?

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@besoeso

we must wait for friend.... DCA.....

B.R.

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[freqzt]

anyone do have the installer?

I think you can download the installer from their ftp but the latest version on their ftp is v7.3. I don't know when they will upload the installer. For the med we wait DCA's help.

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EDX Wireless Introduces SignalRT RF Planning Tool
for PTC Deployment
EDX Wireless releases SignalRT 2.0, an advanced RF planning module for the design
of Positive Train Control wireless networks.
Eugene, OR –February 22, 2011– EDX Wireless, a recognized leader for RF planning tools,
today announced EDX® SignalRT™, a flexible RF planning solution that incorporates advanced
route-based studies specifically designed for planning PTC (Positive Train Control) wireless
networks, yet with broad application to other route-based transportation wireless network
applications.
“The needs of an efficient Rail PTC system differ greatly from standard wireless
solutions and require a different approach to planning and optimizing," says Steve Webster,
director of product management at EDX. “EDX has worked closely with the rail and
transportation communities to define SignalRT, which is based on the extensive capabilities of
our SignalPro suite of RF tools. We are very pleased to bring this unique and innovative industry
specific product to market.”
PTC RF links are designed primarily for communication and control along a rail line,
making the radio coverage and interference off the tracks less relevant to PTC operation. The
EDX SignalRT Network Design Module incorporates several innovations in RF planning which
simplify and improve the design and planning of RF networks for PTC systems. Based on the
latest version of EDX SignalPro® suite of RF planning tools, SignalRT concentrates calculations
along the rail lines creating a high-resolution study that can be run more efficiently and quickly
than a comparable study using conventional planning tools. The result is a more accurate
representation of the interference, coverage and quality of RF service along the route of interest.
In addition, EDX’s highly efficient implementation permits “what-if”scenarios to be rapidly
analyzed and simplifies the comparison of various architectures and vendor equipment and their
effect on overall performance. The focus on the specific rail route, rather than an area study,
translates into higher performance, greater reliability and lower equipment costs.
SignalRT also includes the EDX Clutter Carving™ algorithm. Clutter Carving allows the
use of easily obtainable digitized street data as a “cookie cutter” to carve street canyons out of
low resolution clutter data files. The user specifies the widths of the street canyons which are
then carved from the clutter. Suited to both planning and deployment phases, Clutter Carving
allows the use of low cost, low resolution clutter data while still giving accurate propagation
predictions from antennas that are mounted above Rights of Way but which are below the
average surrounding clutter height. The benefit is that a user can employ freely available data
that better represents the propagation environment, thereby improving accuracy while lowering
design cost.
SignalRT also enjoys broad application to any transportation related RF network where
the same considerations of coverage and quality along a defined route, rather than an area, are
important and where implementation costs and time to market are factors.
About EDX Wireless LLC
Headquartered in Eugene, Oregon, EDX Wireless develops wireless Radio Frequency
(RF) planning, performance visualization and design software. It offers some of the industries
most widely used engineering software tools for planning and designing wireless
communications networks. These products support a growing range of standards including
wireless broadband, WiMAX, LTE, Wi-Fi, public safety, and many other mobile wireless
technologies.
Since 1985, EDX customers have relied on SignalPro®, the flexible and comprehensive
suite of RF planning tools for designing wireless communications networks, including transportation,
wireless broadband, WiMAX, LTE, Wi-Fi, public safety, and other mobile wireless systems. The result
of over 25 years of development effort, SignalPro is used by thousands of engineers in over 60
countries and is the tool of choice for designing accurate, reliable and scalable RF networks,
worldwide.


Waiting...Friend...DCA..post..upgrade..EDX7.4.

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[vivainter]

Any news about Signalpro 7.4?
thanks

[DCA]

@All
Good news. Needed files are available ;-)

anyone still interested?

[vivainter]

Can you please share ?
thanks

[besoeso]

That will be good!!

[kamy]

@All
Good news. Needed files are available ;-)

anyone still interested?

@DCA
waiting for you now...