Gaithersburg, Maryland (PRWEB) July 31, 2012
GL Communications Inc. a leader in providing PC-based test, analysis and simulation products and consulting services to the worldwide telecommunications industry, conveyed today the availability of its RF Propagation Tool a Radio Frequency (RF) design tool.
Speaking to the press, Mr. Vijay Kulkarni, CEO of the company said, Radio propagation studies are important to engineers for planning wireless systems. With applications of WiFi, WiMAX and other wireless technologies becoming more ubiquitous, RF propagation studies have become critical, more than ever, to insure highly reliable networks. For example, one of the key outcomes of an RF propagation study would be prediction of coverage area of a transmitter. It would help a network planner optimize the location of the transmitters to achieve service reliability in a cost effective manner.
He added, RF propagation is transmission of radio signals from a transmitter to a receiver. Propagation of RF signals depends on the radio frequency, geographic terrain, foliage, buildings, and varying weather conditions. Radio network designers predict RF coverage based on a set of system requirements that include proposed site locations, antennas, radiating power and various other parameters. Such a prediction is crucial to determine whether intended service objectives can be met.
Mr. Kulkarni further added, GL’s RF propagation tool supports Cellular, PCS, Land Mobile Radio and other radio network planners in predicting the coverage of their proposed networks or in evaluating the coverage of existing radio systems. RF propagation studies are divided into two categories, Downlink (Talk-Out) and Uplink (Talk-Back) analysis. With inputs such as site locations, antenna types, AGL (Above Ground Level) and AMSL (Above Mean Sea Level), the tool can analyze the links, predict the coverage, and point out deficiencies and dead spots. The tool also provides expected RSSI levels in different regions of coverage.
About GL Communications Inc.,
Founded in 1986, GL Communications Inc. Provides technical consulting, engineering and testing services in wireless, telecom, and IT disciplines. Our customers include telecom wireless and landline carriers, mass transit and public safety systems nationwide. We have designed hundreds of wired and wireless telecom network systems over the past 23 years.
GL is a DBE/MBE firm certified by Maryland’s Department of Transportation (MDOT), Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), and South Eastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA).
GLs TDM Analysis & Emulation line of products includes T1, E1, T3, E3, OC-3, OC-12, STM-1, STM-4, analog four-wire, and analog two-wire interface cards, external portable pods, and complete system solutions. Capabilities include voiceband traffic analysis and emulation across all traffic types (voice, digits, tones, fax, modem), all protocols (ISDN, SS7, GR-303, Frame Relay, HDLC, V5.X, ATM, GSM, GPRS, LTE, etc.), and with capacities up to thousands of channels. Our newest products provide astonishing capacity and capture capability up to and including gigabit speeds.
GLs VoIP and IP products generate / analyze thousands of calls and traffic simultaneously with traffic types such as frames, packets, voice files, digits, video, tones, noise, and fax. Almost all codecs are supported including G.711, G.729, AMR, EVRC-A, B, C, GSM, iSAC, and many more. Additional features include visual analysis, real-time listening, and recording. The product line also includes Ethernet / IP Testing capability that simulates and checks frame transport and throughput parameters of Ethernet and IP networks, including delay, errors and other impairments.
GL’s Voice Quality Testing (VQT) product line complements all of GL’s products. Using ITU-standard algorithms (PAMS, PSQM, and PESQ), GL’s VQT provides a widely accepted solution for assessing voice quality in the telecom industry. Voice Quality Testing across multiple networks (T1, E1, T3, E3, OC-3, OC-12, VoIP, Wireless, and Landline) is available.
GLs Wireless Products perform protocol analysis and voice quality assessment on GSM, CDMA, UMTS, and LTE networks. Connections can be made to any wireless phone with automated call control, GPS mapping and real-time signal measurements.
GLs Echo Canceller testing solutions provide the broadest range of simulation and analysis, including line and acoustic echo. GLs compliance testing per G.168. G.167 and P.340 across TDM, IP, VoIP and Wireless networks is widely accepted in the industry.
GLs wireless VQT solutions help assessing impairments to voice quality such as poor mobile phone quality, voice compression and decompression algorithms, delay, loss and gain in speech levels, noise, acoustic and landline echo, and other distortions are easily assessed and accurately measured.
GLs Handheld data testers can test a wide variety of communications facilities and equipment including T1, fractional T1, E1, fractional E1, T3 and E3 modems, multiplexers, CSU, DSUs, T1 CSUs, DTUs, NTUs and TIUs and more. The testers provide convenience, economy, and portability for almost any interface, including RS232, RS-422, RS-530, X.21, T1, E1, T3, E3, and many others.
GLs Network Surveillance and Monitoring products include Probes for TDM, IP, VoIP, ATM, and Wireless networks. An open standards based approach provides a scalable, feature rich, real-time access to network characteristics. Centralized or distributed access, efficient transport and database loading allow compatibility with 3rd party and standards based monitoring systems.
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