Comsearch Announces the Sale of iQ·link to a Fourth Vodafone Company
Premier Microwave Network Design Tool
Continues To Be First Choice Of Leading Global Operators
ASHBURN, VA - Comsearch, an Allen Telecom company (NYSE: ALN), announced today the sale of its premier microwave path design software tool to support Vodafone's GSM network in Hungary. iQ·link is currently licensed to three other Vodafone entities with multiple platforms deployed across Europe.
iQ·link is the industry-leading spectrum allocation and engineering software tool that supports the end-to-end design of fixed microwave networks. The tool is a proven and trusted engineering product for path clearance, reliability predictions, and fast, accurate interference analysis assessments, having been used to place more than 100,000 microwave links into production worldwide. Designed by microwave engineers for microwave engineers, the software tool incorporates the ability to analyze per-exposure, cumulative and near-field effects to quickly and easily find channels that are free of conflicts, even in congested networks consisting of tens of thousands of microwave paths. iQ·link incorporates GIS interfaces to display an entire network. Path outage algorithms utilize the latest ITU recommendations. iQ·link readily interfaces with other software packages, insuring the integrity of critical data elements.
A consortium led by Vodafone was awarded a license in 1999 to establish and operate a GSM/DCS radio network across Hungary, embracing Vodafone's global strategy of providing an ever wider and richer range of voice, data and Internet-based services to its customers by capitalizing on new developments in technology. Vodafone's subsidiary in Hungary, headquartered in Budapest, is the V.R.A.M. Ltd., a joint venture owned by the Netherlands-based Vodafone. International Holdings B.V. (50.1 percent), the Antenna Hungária Rt. (30 percent) and the RWE Com Gmbh & co. oHG (19.9 percent). Vodafone, the largest mobile telecommunications network company in the world, has interests in mobile networks in 28 countries across five continents. With more than 100 million subscribers in 29 countries, the core activities of Vodafone are mobile, voice and data transmissions.
"A trusted and comprehensive network design tool, iQ·link offers Vodafone rapid path design, complete interference analysis and world class support," said Ferenc Boros, Program Manager for Vodafone, Hungary. "Selecting iQ·link for our network design process was a sound business decision based on its ability to maintain our expansive network growth, easily integrate into our existing design process and expand with future network enhancements."
"We are pleased that Vodafone's Hungarian subsidiary has decided to join the ranks of the other Vodafone companies in selecting iQ·link as their network design tool. The addition of this Vodafone company reinforces our confidence in iQ·link across the European market," said Bruce Eley, European Account Manager for Comsearch.
Comsearch, headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia, with offices in the European and Asia Pacific regions, provides total solution global offerings for wireless engineering design, acquisition, installation, and maintenance services. With more than 25 years of experience in developing solutions for mobile and broadband wireless applications, Comsearch has expanded its expertise into distributed wireless In-building design, real estate telecommunications services and private land mobile radio. Its experienced engineers, software products and information databases have addressed the specific challenges of network design and spectrum management for the evolving global wireless industry.
To find out more about Comsearch's full range of wireless engineering services and products, log onto www.comsearch.com.
Allen Telecom Inc. (www.allentele.com) is a leading supplier of wireless equipment to the global telecommunications infrastructure market. FOREM supplies sophisticated filters, duplexers, combiners, amplifiers and microwave radios to an array of OEM customers. MIKOM focuses on providing repeaters, in-building systems and other products that enhance both the coverage and the capacity of a wireless system. Tekmar Sistemi provides integrated low power fiber optic and cable distributed antenna systems for indoor coverage systems. Decibel Products and Antenna Specialists manufacture land based and mobile antennas in frequency bands that cover all of the traditional wireless networks. Grayson Wireless supplies measurement and signal processing systems for testing the performance of a wireless network, network-based wireless caller geolocation systems for E 911 and value added services. Comsearch offers engineering and consulting services for wireless operators.
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