GIS for Telecommunications

Wavecall provides cutting-edge software-tools and services for planning and optimising wireless networks. The Wavecall product family - WaveSight, WaveInSight and WaveConsult - is grouped around our unique core-competencies in the prediction of wireless wave propagation and ray-tracing.

Our tools are available as plug-ins for standard planning tools like Planet, Enterprise, Odyssey or Atoll and as stand-alone versions. The stand-alone versions are based on ESRI technology. ArcView of ESRI has proven to be the most powerful GIS - interface that is most stable, easy to use and easy to plug-in.

Wavecall was founded in 1997 at the Science Park of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology were we started to develop our core-product WaveSight. In 1999 WaveSight had left the product stage of a prototype. It became a milestone for the ray-tracing technology. When we started our research, a ray-tracing model needed calculation times of 12 hours and more to calculate a micro cell. Using the same computation power WaveSight needed 5 minutes!

Other features which make WaveSight special are:

it is a physical model
it gives accurate results without needing calibration
it can calculate 3-dimensional coverage mountains
handling is very easy
WaveSight is an extremely powerful combination of accuracy and speed

Technically WaveSight is at the cutting-edge of the market. Continuous improvements have been performed. Compared to the first market-ready version of WaveSight:

the computation time was cut by 50%
the memory requirements were cut to half
and the accuracy was improved significantly

Additionally, the technical team was able to add new functions and started to re-engineer WaveSight to become a universal model that does not only run in urban areas, but in rural areas, too. Thus, WaveSight is becoming a tool "for all seasons".

Wavecall was able to start evaluations with a lot of well-known network operators and has acquired a large set of customers. Among those who have bought WaveSight are industry leaders like Logica, Omnitel in Italy, Telenor in Norway, Orange in Switzerland, Telfort in the Netherlands, Broadband in Norway, Inventis, Raytheon and others. Among those whore are testing are companies like VIAG Interkom in Germany, Telefonica in Spain, D2 Vodafone in Germany, Hutchison 3G in the UK and in Italy, Siemens and about 30 other companies.

And we will continue to pursue our mission: "… to enable the wireless industry to deliver higher quality services at lower costs. We are aiming for market leadership by solving problems of propagation simulation and network optimisation through cutting-edge technology."

For more information about Wavecall, please visit www.wavecall.com or contact:

Dr. Gernod Gruening
Marketing & Sales Manager
Wavecall
Science Park for the Swiss Institute of Technology
PSE-B / EPFL
1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
E-Mail: gruening@wavecall.com
Mobile: +41 (0)78 624 85 15