AsiaPAC must plan for smart cities

AsiaPAC must plan for smart
cities

The increasing commitment to smart
city initiatives highlights need for coordinated indoor and outdoor wireless
network planning

May 10, 2017: With the race on to lead
the world in delivering smart cities, AsiaPAC governments, operators
and integrators need to take a fresh look at how they can provide ubiquitous wireless connectivity
both indoors and out, says Ranplan Wireless. Ranplan warns
that the traditional approach of designing wireless networks from the outside
in will not be able to meet the increasing demand for greater capacity and
coverage across dense urban environments.

Instead, at CommunicaAsia later this month, Ranplan will
be showcasing its latest iBuildNet suite of planning and optimization tools,which enable
coordinated design and roll-out of indoor and outdoor Small
Cell, DAS and Wi-Fi networks. Ranplan will also be launching
standard and simplified Chinese language versions to meet growing demand for localized support.

The CommunicaAsia event follows successful launch events
in Taiwan and Indonesia that focused on the challenges of
delivering seamless indoor and outdoor radio coverage and capacity. “AsiaPAC countries are leading
the deployment of smart city initiatives asthe demand for these solutions continues to rise,”
says Alastair Williamson, CEO at Ranplan. “But if networks are
not planned in coordination they will not achieve seamless indoor /
outdoor connectivity and will suffer from poor capacity, coverage and
interference.”  

The default outside-in approach to indoor planning relies
on macro coverage to penetrate into buildings such as
office blocks, shopping centers, campuses or stadia. But the move to
higher frequency bands with 4G/LTE and 5G has made this approach outdated.As
a result, mobile operators are supplementing the outdoor macro model
with in-building systems using Small Cells, DAS and Wi-Fi to
improve indoor coverage and quality of service.

“Independent models of indoor and outdoor, RAN and backhaul, RF
performance and KPI indicators cannot take account of their overall
interaction and will therefore be implicitly inaccurate,” says Williamson.
“With AsiaPAC countries accelerating their adoption
ofsmart city technology such as smart lighting, building and
transportation, a holistic approach to network performance
modelling is essential to understand how different types of wireless networks
infrastructure will work together.”

The iBuildNet all-in-one solution reduces the
time and cost of deployment and ensures support for future technologies
and standards.iBuildNet can be used for all indoor and outdoor scenarios
from in-building to complex indoor and outdoor facilities,
includingunderground environments such as transport tunnels and
shopping malls.

In response to growing demand for iBuildNet in AsiaPAC countries, Ranplan has
signed a number of reseller agreements includingTeltai and
HLS Telecom. These partners put Ranplan in a strong position to
take iBuildNet to market and provide local support expertise to
customers in these regions.

Ranplan will be exhibiting at this month’s CommunicAsia on 23-25
May and next month’s MWC Shanghai on 28 June-01 July.
If you are attending either event and would like to arrange a meeting
please contact Ranplan at: info@ranplanwireless.com