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Improve wireless performance and enhance subscriber experience

Actix Analyzer offers a tried and tested approach to improving the performance of a wireless network and enhancing the customer’s service experience. From RF fine-tuning to network troubleshooting and optimization, Actix Analyzer allows users to take control of engineering processes and to transform an engineering organization to gain competitive advantage.

With its built-in process management capability Actix Analyzer empowers expert engineers and makes businesses even more competitive.

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By working with over 200 operators, leading vendors and 90% of 3G operators worldwide, Actix is able to find solutions to the most difficult performance engineering challenges and this knowledge is then embedded into the software.

Actix-empowered engineers can build on this unrivalled knowledge-bank using processes and KPIs focused on an organization’s unique set of challenges and business goals. And once best-practice engineering is established (and later evolves), it can be shared throughout an engineering organization ensuring consistency and reliability, and faster network testing.

Key Benefits

Actix Analyzer is a powerful, configurable data analysis solution designed to streamline network optimization and performance. It enables:

• Automated diagnostics and solution finding

Complex radio engineering problems require specialist skills and advanced software to solve them. With Actix Analyzer’s unmatched analysis capability and powerful visualizations, expert engineers will create a way for all of an organization’s radio engineers to get to the root cause of a problem faster, and take corrective action with confidence.

• Standardized processes across teams and regions

With an expert’s processes embedded in Actix Analyzer, all front-line radio engineers can test the network in a consistent and repeatable manner, bringing best-practice engineering within the test organization, reducing tool and process training, increasing productivity, and cutting the cost of testing.

• One network view: multi-technology and multi-vendor

Actix Analyzer performs across multiple network technologies such as GSM, GPRS, EDGE, CDMA, UMTS, EVDO and HSDPA, service protocols, test devices and infrastructure formats, giving a single, unified view of the network.

• Adaptability as challenges evolve

Actix Analyzer can be configured in a range of ways that makes sense to evolving engineering organization and resources. New analysis techniques and processes that have been identified and defined by an organization’s technology specialists can be captured and shared with colleagues.

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Examples of processes created

Cluster Acceptance

Val idate c luster per formance with ease

Actix Analyzer’s powerful, configurable analysis and reporting capabilities can be used to easily verify that cluster performance meets agreed performance metrics. It provides cluster-wide analysis, demographic-based reporting, and configurable KPI grooming. In addition to radio performance, it offers fast and efficient data-service testing including measurements such as delay, throughput, FTP and HTTP.

Benchmarking

Receive cruc ia l network per formance ins ights – fast

Actix Analyzer reveals how a network is really performing. Ideal for benchmarking, it provides a convenient, impartial comparison of network quality, even among networks using different technologies such as GSM, GPRS, EDGE, CDMA, UMTS, EVDO and HSDPA. It enables visibility of network performance and trends across regions, vendors and

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competitors and in addition offers the ability to drill down from a network-wide view to root-cause detail in seconds. By streamlining workflow and making better use of quality data the cost of drive-test collection is significantly reduced.

Pr ior i ty locat ion test ing

Estab l ish focused processes when and where i t matters most

When there is a need to maximize roaming revenue, ensure key services are coping in high traffic areas to guarantee performance, Actix Analyzer can be used to create a set of highly focused, automated processes. Indoor marker interpolation, and highly configurable voice and data KPIs enable users to create a standard automated test for specific situations – whether it’s for airport, train station, indoor, traffic hotspots or walk-tests.

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Mobi le device test ing

Handset usage is growing wor ldwide: don’ t get drowned in test ing

For vendors rolling out handsets supporting cutting edge Technology, Actix Analyzer can eliminate the need for time-consuming manual troubleshooting as it enables users to:

• Automate the analysis for operator specific or standardized test cases

• Fine-tune test cases for newer handsets and chipsets

• Rapidly modify test analyses for RF, Voice, Data and IP applications

For operators testing more and more handset models against networks, Actix Analyzer allows the cost of launching new devices to be reduced by streamlining the testing process and ensuring complex new capabilities are working properly. It enables users to:

• Create quantitative, repeatable test analysis modelling consumer perception

• Accelerate problem investigation by correlating data from underlying layers

• Be vendor independent regardless of choice of network or handset supplier

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Key features

Act ix Analyzer ’s features inc lude:

• Visualization

• Define screen layouts, map legends and labels

• View performance data in synchronized maps, charts, graphs and tables

• Drill down from high level statistics and event detection to message analysis level

• Define regional polygons for filtering and querying

• Analysis

• Combine knowledge of wireless technologies with customized queries

• Correlate data from different vendors, sources (scanner, UE, call trace, IP sniffer)

• Define KPIs and thresholds

• Replay and filter performance measurements

• Import and report

• Batch process files and report automatically

• Create customized reports to match an organization’s needs

• Share expert’s processes with the wider team (IPR protection available)

• Import extensive drive test campaign data

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