Five platforms, built in-house.

The problem

Two decades of network growth have layered cell sites, capacity expansions and dual-band introductions onto networks whose physical and database parameters were never revisited. Most cells still run default settings, or settings identical to every other cell, across a significant parameter set — regardless of their geography, traffic, coverage area or neighbour relations.

What Quark does

Quark is a multi-vendor, multi-technology solution that optimises key cell database parameters at sector level. It takes network configuration and statistics from the OSS and tunes each sector to its actual conditions, lifting performance while holding down both capital and operating expenditure. Quark supports GSM, UMTS and LTE, including interworking between them.

Why it deploys quickly

Quark runs on input data operators already collect from their OSS. Its recommendations are soft changes, implementable from the network centre without field visits — so a full network can be optimised quickly and cheaply.

Tracer lets operators see, analyse and troubleshoot RF performance problems across a network — from the whole network down to an individual cell.

It collects, post-processes and analyses data from the network configuration database, from multiple performance data sources including call traces, and from drive tests, then generates KPI reports across all of it.

Built-in optimisation algorithms and analysis logic identify root causes directly, so engineers are not working through the analysis by hand before they can start fixing anything. Tracer fits into daily operations and network expansion work, and can be tailored to a specific operator's optimisation scenarios.

Fission is built specifically for spectrum refarming — the transition to a changed spectrum scenario, done without damaging the experience subscribers currently have.

Working from configuration management, performance management and traffic recording data, it targets optimal spectral efficiency while limiting the impact on customer-perceived quality.

Fission is equally applicable to network consolidation projects.