orangekors
2010-07-07, 10:11 PM
I use NetAct Planner from NSN but they have stopped support and development of it. It is basically the same product as Aircoms Asset but since I need to invest in an upgrade I wanted to know a bit about other tools for radioplanning.
There are lots of things that I currently don't like about NetAct Planner:
- It is a slow tool. Doing frequency planning takes more than an hour if you zoom to 50km and do a coverage plot, interference plot and run ILSA.
- There's no change management. If I want to rebuild a current site I have to make a copy of the site, rename it, and remember to change the names, cellids and so forth again when it goes on air.
- The syncronisation with the network does work. I always get a long list of faults that I have to edit manually.
- The 2G and 3G part of the tool have clearly been designed by different developers. This makes it confusing when you need to find some parameters.
- The recommend setup from Aircom is to have an "inservice" database and a "planning" database, but if you want to move sites between the 2 databases you either have to log out and log in or have 2 user logins (which doubles the license costs)
Feel free to share some information about other planning tools you know or help to my problems above.
If you know something about the price struckture of other tools I'd be glad to hear about them too.
There are lots of things that I currently don't like about NetAct Planner:
- It is a slow tool. Doing frequency planning takes more than an hour if you zoom to 50km and do a coverage plot, interference plot and run ILSA.
- There's no change management. If I want to rebuild a current site I have to make a copy of the site, rename it, and remember to change the names, cellids and so forth again when it goes on air.
- The syncronisation with the network does work. I always get a long list of faults that I have to edit manually.
- The 2G and 3G part of the tool have clearly been designed by different developers. This makes it confusing when you need to find some parameters.
- The recommend setup from Aircom is to have an "inservice" database and a "planning" database, but if you want to move sites between the 2 databases you either have to log out and log in or have 2 user logins (which doubles the license costs)
Feel free to share some information about other planning tools you know or help to my problems above.
If you know something about the price struckture of other tools I'd be glad to hear about them too.