Motorola Implements ATDI Software for TETRA Project

Motorola is planning a TETRA network in one of Europe’s most mountainous nations and turned to ATDI for cost-effective planning and modeling software.

Motorola and ATDI worked out optimum balances within the context of the maximum number of base stations acceptable and the tough coverage specification requiring that virtually everybody everywhere within the national borders would get a signal. ATDI used its flagship planning and modeling software, ICS Telecom, for the project.

The structure of the proposed network altered several times as the work progressed. Each change in the network had to be planned and modeled afresh. One task was to find appropriate base station sites. Some of the original sites designated for the service were not the most effective for the task, and staff from ATDI and Motorola had to spend some time finding alternatives that would be more effective yet still within cost parameters.

“It has been the most interesting of challenges,” said ATDI Managing Director Cyprien de Cosson. “Just about every difficulty that an engineer could face — from money to politics to geography — was inherent in this job, which is why it is so gratifying that the end result achieved everything that it was intended to.”

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