VIENNA, Austria

Symena and the Institute of Communications and Radio-Frequency Engineering (INTHFT) will co-operate closely on the investigation and further development of Automatic Cell Planning (ACP) functionality for the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard of 3GPP.  Symena’s Capesso™ LTE is the first ACP for LTE.  INTHFT is part of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Vienna University of Technology (Technische Universität Wien).

“LTE is a rapidly evolving standard,” said, Dr Thomas Neubauer, Managing Director of Symena.  “To stay in the lead we need to understand the impact of changes to the technology on our customers’ future business.  Working with the INTHFT gives us access to leading edge research and understanding in critical and rapidly developing areas such as MIMO simulation and field measurements, fractional frequency reuse, traffic localisation techniques and their advanced LTE link level simulator.”

“Symena’s early commercial success with Capesso™ LTE delivers real world experience to the Institute,” said Professor Christoph Mecklenbräuker, Head of INTHFT.  “Working with Symena means that we can use their very practical industry experience to guide our research into the most productive areas.”

Symena released the world first ACP for LTE, Capesso™ LTE, in March 2008.

ABOUT SYMENA
Symena’s Capesso™ range of automatic cell planning and other tools deliver significantly improved coverage, quality and capacity with reduced expenditure.  This promise depends on Symena’s leading edge knowledge of the latest standards and technologies combined with deep and extensively tested automatic cell planning expertise.

ABOUT INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATIONS AND RADIO-FREQUENCY ENGINEERING (INTHFT) The INTHFT’s research focuses on mobile communications, optical communications, radio-frequency engineering, rapid prototyping, and signal processing.  Projects range from fundamental research to the design of hardware demonstrators.  Many projects are carried out in close cooperation with advanced industrial partners and/or in the framework of international projects and programmes.