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COMAPRISON PARAMETERS 1 Company Product Version 2 File Format Project File Input Files(Recommended)

Subset files(.planet is supported by Atoll but .ATL is not supported by Planet)

3 Advanced Features

Preferred Automated Cell Planning Tool for Optimisation of Nominal Cell Plan Automatic Greenfield Site Placement Tool Supported Monte-Carlo Simulations Automated Frequency and Physical Cell ID Planning
Automatic Neighbour Planning Support Report Generation, report templates Multi technology per site can be stored in one project if needed Layered PDF supported for outputs Support Project templates for default project settings Exchange of Project data (Machine- Machine , On Email) Special sub frames configuration supported 4 Propagation Model

Ray-tracing Model(eg. Wavecall(Wavesight), Valcano(Siradel), WinProp(AWE Communication))[3rd party] Standard Propagation Model(Using K Parameters) Empirical Model (HATA COST , Okumara Hata Cost 231)
Integration of external propagation models through an API and a C++ development kit 5 Working Environment Ease of Use Files and database management Pre- Prediction computation without locking Performance - Speed of operation Performance - Memory Requirement Support for Different Zone selection(Filtering zone, Hot spot zones ,etc) Sector colorization tool (i.e., display schemes) 6 Basic Features TD-LTE Support Radio and Network Parameters

Multiple frequency bands

Site database can be shared with Microwave for backhaul planning

Traffic Modelling
Modelling of voice and data services Support for LTE Schedular Algorithms

Traffic map creation from live data measurements, demographic data, clutter data and market forecasts

Measurement Module Import CW Measurements Import Drive test data Measurements

Survey Management Live traffic Data, import per service layer 7 GIS Features Integrated cartography editor (vector/raster) Support for Web Map Services (WMS) Queries (SQL type) 3D view Multiple Windows Resize, reproject, splice and update clutter and DTM Synchronize windows and layouts Raster can be queried, and manipulated, Subtraction, AND OR etc Drag and Drop option (Files import and site placement) Integrated Bing Maps in 5.21and support synchronized export to Google earth, import GE images *Mentum supports better GIS features because it is based on GIS software Mapinfo Ver10 8 Support Features User guides and help features Technical Support

ATOLL Forsk 2.8.2

Forsk 2.8.2

.ATL .agd , .index Supported

.ATL .agd , .index Supported

Capesso from Symena Supported / Unsupported Good /Moderate /Poort Good /Moderate /Poort Good /Moderate /Poort Good /Moderate /Poort Supported / Unsupported Supported / Unsupported Good /Moderate /Poort Good /Moderate /Poort Supported / Unsupported

Capesso from Symena Capesso from Symena Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported

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Good /Moderate /Poort Good /Moderate /Poort Supported / Unsupported Good /Moderate /Poort Good /Moderate /Poort Good /Moderate /Poort Good /Moderate /Poort

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Supported / Unsupported Supported Supported Supported / Unsupported Supported Supported / Unsupported Supported Good /Moderate /Poort Supported Supported / Unsupported Supported

Supported / Unsupported Supported Supported / Unsupported Supported / Unsupported Supported / Unsupported Supported Supported / Unsupported Supported Supported / Unsupported Supported Supported / Unsupported Supported Supported / Unsupported Supported / Unsupported Supported Supported / Unsupported Supported

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