Small Cells

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With the increasing trend for mobile operators worldwide to deploy small cells to solve capacity and quality issues in their networks, new solutions are needed to ensure these assets deliver the expected business benefits.

With typical small cells having a coverage radius of only a few tens of metres, planning their placement requires a precision impossible with traditional techniques. By geolocating traffic down to building level resolution ariesoGEO allows mobile operators to select candidate sites that will deliver the greatest business impact by directly targeting traffic hotspots, or quality blackspots. Operators have reported improvements up to 3X the return on capital investment by placing small cells with such surgical precision.

In some networks around the world the number of small cells now exceeds the number or Macro Cells. Understanding and optimizing such a network becomes increasingly complex, the impact of small cells on the macro layer is challenging to determine. By revealing the true customer experience with detailed RF KPIs for all calls and data sessions ariesoGEO allows the true impact to be accurately assessed, and optimized as required.

As networks move towards true heterogeneous designs with smalls cells provided by multiple vendors and utilizing different technologies, viewing the network needs a multi technology, multi vendor approach. As the leading solution covering more vendors and technologies than any other, with coverage being extended all the time, ariesoGEO provides the most complete picture of a complex HetNet.