Licensed and Un-licensed spectrum options supported, including NB-IoT, LTE-M, LoRa and Sigfox
FAIRFAX, VA., USA – 8 November 2016 – TEOCO, the leading provider of engineering, assurance and analytics solutions to communications service providers (CSPs) worldwide, today announced comprehensive support for the planning of next-generation IoT networks. TEOCO’s market-leading network planning solution, ASSET Radio, now supports emerging IoT standards including NB-IoT, LTE-M and unlicensed LPWA technologies such as LoRa and Sigfox. These capabilities are available to all existing ASSET Radio 9.0 customers with no additional modules required. Additionally, through the ASSET Design module, TEOCO customers can use automatic planning and site creation capabilities to evaluate deployment scenarios and create designs that meet their strict coverage and server redundancy requirements.
Support for both licensed and un-licensed IoT standards will offer greater flexibility to IoT service providers looking to build highly efficient IoT networks that support a wide range of current and emerging services and devices. These could range from Industrial applications to wearables, traffic management systems, healthcare and smart appliances. With TEOCO’s ASSET suite, IoT service providers will be able to deploy unlicensed LPWA networks now and later integrate licensed IoT technologies, such as LTE-M or NB-IoT when they become commercially available, ensuring seamless service provisioning across the entire range of IoT applications.
Thanks to the ASSET suite’s flexible and forward-looking technology modeling, its customers can now benefit from these new IoT design capabilities without having to acquire new modules. This is in line with TEOCO’s philosophy of delivering products and services that provide continuous value to customers and ensure the highest ROI.
“IoT represents a significant commercial opportunity for mobile operators around the world,” said Daniel Ramirez, Director of RAN Products at TEOCO. “Each IoT service provider will have its own path, depending on their existing infrastructure and competitive pressures. Both licensed and unlicensed IoT technologies have a valuable role to play in helping operators monetize the IoT, but, to realize this, service providers must be able to model the costs and benefits of each option. The ASSET suite now offers this capability.”
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TEOCO is the leading provider of Engineering, Assurance and Analytics solutions to communication service providers (CSPs) worldwide. Our solutions provide CSPs with unique insights into business, customer, network and device metrics by harnessing big data analytics. We are a trusted partner to the world’s leading CSPs who rely on our mission-critical solutions.
TEOCO’s product and solutions portfolio includes:
- Business Analytics – Provides a granular view of network and business transactions, enabling CSPs to increase revenues, expand margins and maximize profitability. TEOCO touches all aspects of CSP business operations, and provides insights into profitability, margins, roaming, costs, traffic, usage, subscribers, routes and partners.
- RAN Solutions – Enables CSPs to efficiently and accurately plan, optimize and manage their heterogeneous macro and small cell radio networks and backhaul. TEOCO’s products and solutions are multi-technology and multi-vendor, delivering best-in-class planning, geo-location algorithms and SON capabilities to improve operational efficiencies and reduce total cost of ownership.
- Service Assurance – Delivers CSPs an automated, proactive and unified approach to service, customer network experience, performance and fault management. Our solutions model and measure network and non-network related data from various perspectives to quickly identify and resolve service and network faults and significantly improve service quality and availability, while reducing operating expenses.
- Device and IoT – Provides device manufacturers with lab and field testing services to ensure mobile and IoT devices meet minimum performance requirements. For network operators, device certification is essential to ensuring subscriber satisfaction. TEOCO operates a state-of-the-art lab to assist manufacturers in the increasingly complex and time-consuming task of device certification.
Since 1995, TEOCO has helped over 300 of the largest service providers around the world to manage and evolve their businesses efficiently and profitably, while enhancing the customer experience. TEOCO is widely recognized for its commitment to principled entrepreneurship, business ethics and employee ownership with a particular emphasis on its core values of alignment with employees, clients and community.
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