Symena to Develop TD-SCDMA Optimization Tools

Austria's Symena says that it is committed to developing an optimization tool for the Chinese TD-SCDMA 3G standard. The standard has received a substantial allocation of spectrum in China and several Chinese manufacturers have announced their intention to build equipment for the network. TD-SCDMA requires Smart Antennas on every base station in the network. Smart Antennas in TD-SCDMA are particularly useful in extending the range of base stations in infrastructure poor areas.

Symena's core expertise is in the optimal deployment of Smart Antennas in mobile phone networks. By combining this expertise with Symena 's network optimisation product, Symena is well placed to provide a valuable contribution to the development of what will shortly be the world 's biggest single mobile phone market, China. "Smart Antennas present special challenges in network planning because their behaviour is several times more complex to model than conventional antennas," said Dr Thomas Neubauer,Managing Director of Symena.

The TD-SCDMA network optimization product will be designated Capesso Red. "Symena recently announced the differentiation of its conventional and Smart Antenna optimization products as Capesso Blue and Capesso Orange,," said Christopher Millhouse, Business Development Manager for Symena. "In keeping with the colours theme we thought that Capesso Red was clearly the most auspicious hue for TD-SCDMA."

Capesso Red will incorporate both a highly efficient Smart Antenna modelling engine as well as automated network optimization. This functionality derives from Dr Neubauer's work on network optimization. He was recently awarded the prestigious Dr Ernst Fehrer Prize from the Vienna University of Technology for his work on "UMTS System Simulation with Smart Antennas."

Posted to the site on 21st February 2003