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Contents
1 GETTING STARTED WITH ACTIX ANALYZER..................................................5
1.1 ABOUT THIS GUIDE ................................................................................5
1.2 INTRODUCING ACTIX ANALYZER .................................................................5
1.3 LEARNING ABOUT ANALYZER .....................................................................6
1.4 USE THE ONLINE HELP .............................................................................7
1.5 CUSTOMER SUPPORT ..............................................................................8
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4.7.1 Create a filter ...................................................................................... 47
4.7.2 Filter the data ...................................................................................... 49
4.8 GENERATING NEW REPORTS .................................................................... 50
4.9 LOADING LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA WITH REPOSITORY MANAGER ....................... 52
4.9.1 Create a new Repository ....................................................................... 53
4.9.2 Open a Repository ................................................................................ 54
4.9.3 Load data into a Repository ................................................................... 55
4.9.4 Display the list of files loaded in a Repository ........................................... 56
4.9.5 Close a Repository ................................................................................ 56
4.9.6 Delete a Repository .............................................................................. 57
4.9.7 Manage Repository templates ................................................................ 57
INDEX ............................................................................................ 65
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For a detailed understanding of your solution, you should attend a full Actix training or
workshop session. These can be tailored exclusively to your individual or corporate
requirements.
Feature testing
Service validation
Network bench-marking
Competitive analysis
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Analyzer can load network performance data from many different sources:
These data sources could include field-test equipment and switch call traces, and could be
from a one-off test, or part of a planned series of samples to build up an image of overall
network performance.
Once the data is loaded, a variety of analysis tools and displays provide a clear view of
network performance for engineers, technicians or operations management staff.
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Analyzer can also display context-sensitive reference help for attributes displayed in the
Attribute Explorer window on the left of the Analyzer interface – right click on the attribute
and select the option Display in Attribute Help.
You can also, from the Help menu, select Attribute Help. As you select an attribute in
the Attribute Explorer, related extra information is displayed in the help window.
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All users within a customer of Actix products are encouraged to register, and any user can
submit a case. All cases submitted by users at the same customer are visible to each
other. A customer cannot see other customers’ cases.
Help is available on how to use MyActix when you log on. There is an RSS feed available to
keep up to date with new resources being posted to the portal.
It is also possible to access the Actix Support Service by other means such as email and
telephone, but these methods are not preferred. It is more efficient and effective to submit
a case via www.myactix.com to provide all necessary information to recreate the
Customers’ case, which can then be investigated.
Once an issue has been received by the Support Desk and logged onto the system, it is
considered open until a solution has been implemented to the mutual satisfaction of both
Actix and yourself. At this point, the issue can be considered closed. However, if no
response within 2 weeks is received from the Customer to requests to progress the
resolution of a case, then the case will be closed. The Customer will normally be sent email
reminders that a case needs attention. A closed case can be re-opened upon request.
www.myactix.com is available 24 hours a day apart from occasional essential
maintenance. The Actix Support Service is provided on a regional basis and engineers will
be working on your case during the local business hours of 09:00 to 17:00 Monday to
Friday excluding local public holidays.
Full details on Actix Support are available in the Actix Product Support Description
document.
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After starting your Actix Solution, choose how you want to proceed by selecting an
engineering process.
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3 Configuring Analyzer
Before you can use Analyzer or Spotlight to analyze network performance data, you must
complete a series of tasks to allow the software to operate correctly. These tasks are
described in this section.
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Analyzer does not require the data fields to be listed in a particular order in the
text import file.
The Site ID field must contain a unique value for each site location. Beware of non-
unique Site IDs – that is, entries that have multiple sets of latitudes and longitudes
for the same Site ID. Non-unique Site IDs will result in Analyzer displaying site
markers on the map without sector wedges. Site Names do not need to be unique
– they are only for display purposes.
Position information must be accurate for Analyzer to show sites in the correct
location on the map. Longitudes that have a ‘West’ notation should be represented
as a negative decimal, as should latitudes with a ‘South’ notation. If the latitude
and longitude fields are transposed, sites will appear skewed on the map.
The parameters listed in these tables under the Imported Parameter columns are
required for cell data to function interactively with logged data in the main
Analyzer workspace, and within Spotlight.
▫ Analyzer Group indicates whether the parameter data relates to the site or
to an individual cell.
▫ Analyzer Name is the name used by Analyzer and Spotlight to indicate this
type of network information.
CDMA parameters are shown below, but parameters for other technologies are
listed at the end of this document.
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Before importing new cell data into Analyzer, you need to ensure that Analyzer is pointing
to a valid cell site database.
Every Analyzer installation comes with a clean file called cellrefs.txt, located in the
following folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Actix\Analyzer\Bin\CellRefs\cellrefs.txt
The file does not need to retain this name, and in fact, we recommend that you change it
to something more meaningful, which will prevent the file from being overwritten during
reinstallation. Whatever name you give it, this file is referred to throughout Analyzer as
the cellrefs file.
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To be a valid cellrefs file, the first line must contain the following:
;#NetworkData – datafile
If you import the file using the Network Explorer, this first
line is added automatically.
For future cell site data imports, you can use the Import
From Template option.
3 The Select Data File to Import dialog opens. Select the appropriate cell site data
text file (usually an export data file from your planning tool). Ensure that the data
is suitably formatted, as described in the previous section.
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5 Give the Template a meaningful Template Name ('My CDMA Cell Plan Template'
in this example).
6 Check the appropriate Delimiter that separates the data from the file into
different columns.
For example, under Delimiters, check the Tab box. Under General Settings, for
Ignore header rows enter ‘1’. For Array (list) Separator enter ‘;’. If your file
has more than one header or uses a different array list separator, set these
options accordingly.
7 In most cases, the default information under General Settings and Coordinate
Information will apply. If your file has more than one header or uses a different
array list separator (the character used to separate the array values under the
'Neighbors' column in the example for step 1), adjust these settings as necessary.
Examine your original text file to check that you are using
the correct General Settings! Most cell site data import
problems occur because these have been set wrongly.
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8 Click Next to display the Column Settings page of the Custom Import Wizard is
now displayed, which allows you to associate a network parameter with a column
of data in the text file.
Key fields You must select a field type for this field, but you
cannot set a default value.
These must be either bound to a particular type or have
Required fields
a default value set.
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11 Open the CDMA_Cell node. Next to Sector_ID, click in the Column field. Select
the parameter name from your site database that corresponds to the Sector_ID
parameter.
You can enter a default value that takes effect if the actual
value is unknown. For example, all Beamwidths could be
set to 65 degrees.
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The diagram above looks at a one-second bin. The speed of travel during logging will affect
how many log files you see in a certain area.
Distance binning combines data into
bins corresponding to the distance
traveled by the test mobile.
This mode is commonly used for drive-test analyses when viewing on a map to ensure plot
points are evenly spaced.
Message binning - If the number of messages to be averaged is set to 1, each message
is placed into its own bin with the net result of no averaging of the data. Note that
message binning should be usually only set to ‘1’.
Location binning is like overlaying a spatial grid on top of the data with a user-definable
granularity. This can be used when examining several drive files crossing over the same
geographic area. This method is often used for superstreams (see the online help for more
information).
3.3.2 Specify the message filtering method used when loading data
By default, Analyzer filters out statistically unimportant message information to shorten
load times and increase the number of files that can be loaded at the same time. You can,
however, turn off the message filtering and load every message contained in the data, but
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note that this will increase data loading time. To do this, from the Home menu’s
Preferences area, clear the Load Time Filter checkbox.
if the layer can be annotated (to 'lock' the Annotations layer from having
any further annotations added, click on the box again to clear it)
3 In the Layers box, click Add to open the Open Layer dialog.
4 Select one or more MapInfo Map (.tab) files.
MapInfo layers are named according to the geographic location of the data (for
example, the abbreviated US state name and/or county name), and by the type of
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data contained in the file. Here are some of the common abbreviations used for
MapInfo data types:
The top of the layer list represents the uppermost layer in this map window.
6 Click Up and Down to move 'examplemap' to the bottom and 'Annotations' to the
top.
7 Click Close and return to the map view.
In a new Actix installation, the map location defaults to 0 longitude, 0 latitude, so
you will need to arrange the map view to display the new map.
8 Pan the map viewing area by right-clicking in the map area, then choosing Zoom,
Go to Layer and selecting the new map layer.
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9 Use the Zoom and Pan controls to arrange the map as required. To zoom in to an
area, click Zoom In, then click and drag a rectangle around the area of interest.
To use Do this
Data Field Select the data field to be displayed as the label.
Formatted Field Set the formatted field to be used as the label
displayed, depending on the layer selected in the
Layer Control dialog.
Show To display labels on the map (which are
otherwise hidden to improve map load times),
check the box.
Allow overlapped text To allow labels to overlap, check the box.
Hide adjacent duplicate text To allow the same text to appear for adjacent
data points, clear the box .
Display within range To display labels only within the maximum and
minimum zoom levels, check the box. A zoom
level is the width of the map area displayed, in
the current map units.
Min Zoom Set the lowest zoom level at which labels will be
displayed.
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To use Do this
Max Zoom Set the highest zoom level at which labels will
be displayed.
Max # of labels Set the maximum number of labels that can be
shown on the map.
Label Style Set the font style for the label.
Position Select the position of the label relative to the
data point.
Label X/Y offset (points) Set the offset of the label in the X or Y direction.
The offset is measured in points (as used for
fonts).
Label Style Defines the appearance of the label text in terms
of color, font, size and other effects.
4 Check Display within Zoom range and enter '0' for Min Zoom and '10' for Max
Zoom.
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Technology Attribute
CDMA PN_1stBestEcIo
GSM ServBCCH
iDEN Channel
IS_136 FACCH_CurChannel
UMTS Uu_ActiveSet_SC
6 Check that the Disable box is empty, and click OK, then Yes.
7 Click OK to close the Layer Control dialog.
8 Zoom In on data points near a cell site, and use Select to pick a data point.
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Set the cells to be labeled by an appropriate parameter for the technology (for example,
SC for UMTS).
You may want to change the size of cell site sectors as displayed on a map. This is
especially useful if you are using multiple cell layers.
1 From the map window, click on Cell Sites to open the Sites/Cell Properties dialog.
2 Set the Series attribute to be <tech>_Cell, for example CDMA_Cell, or
WCDMA_Cell.
3 Set the Cell Size to an attribute shared by all related cell sites, such as
Layer_type (recommended if available from your cellrefs file) or MCC, and click OK
to display the new layer in the Legend panel on the left.
4 Expand the new layer to show one item in the range, called 'Unspecified'.
5 Right-click on this item and choose Selected range's style to open the Style
chooser dialog.
6 Set the new font size as required and click OK. The cell site sectors will now
change size to reflect your selection.
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Key:
1 The ribbon provide the full range of commands.
To toggle the interface for new windows (for example, for Maps, Charts, Tables
etc., but not the main Analyzer ribbon) between using buttons alone and buttons
with text, select:
File > Preferences > General Settings > Use Small Toolbars.
2 The Attribute Explorer panel shows all logfiles, repositories and dataset operations.
3 Various data views (e.g. maps, charts, tables) can be opened in this area.
4 The Replay control lets you step through logfile data.
5 This area reports on any filters in operation and the type of data binning being
used.
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An attribute
Click on the symbols to open out and explore the data in your logfile. See how your data
relates to the structure shown above.
The only objects that you actually need to recognize are filenames, data streams and data
attributes.
In the example above, the file 'MyFile1' contains a data stream called 'Qualcomm MDM
1900' (the number is the data stream number within the file, starting from zero).
The 'CDMA' group contains the 'Pilot Sets' set, which contains the 'SearcherMaxEnergy'
data attribute.
The logical tree-view layout of the Attribute Explorer allows you to drill down and identify
all logged data. Once you have located the appropriate data attribute, you can open it in a
data window—for example, a map, chart, table or spreadsheet—to examine the data in
detail. You can examine data streams using the Message Browser tool.
Searching for attributes
You can search the window for a particular attribute by typing all or part of it into the field
below the data structure. When you first click in the field, a small popup menu allows you
to pick from any attributes you recently selected in Analyzer's features.
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You can narrow the search by clicking on the button to the left of the field, which lets you
specify the stream(s) that you want to search. The rightmost arrow button allows you to
match the case or the whole word (rather than a part) in your search.
Once you start typing in the field, the data structure area is filtered to show any matching
attributes.
You can click on the Filter Mode button and click on Search to highlight the search text
field.
You can also use the Filter Mode button to select Favorites. This displays any attributes
you have previously picked out (by right clicking on the attribute and selecting Add to
Favorites from the popup menu).
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Examples of each are shown below. Note how the Group Mode icon changes for each
selection, as well as the result on the data structure.
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Most common features can be accessed in this way. Stream analysis options are described
in the section Viewing summary data below.
Queries have a different set of options:
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The top pane shows a tree-view of the network structure against various statistics
produced by the report set.
3 Use the top pane as necessary to narrow down the data in your selection.
All reports appropriate to your selection are displayed under the Suggested tab. If
you want to use another report, look under the All tab to view all reports available
within the current application pack.
A description of the reports contained within each set is also provided in this
window.
4 Double-click on a report icon to open the report window. This will report on all data
selected in the upper tree-view panel.
5 As required, use the buttons at the bottom of the window to Save the report as a
web-compatible HTML file set, Print the report to your printer or open the report
in Excel using Show Excel Report.
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From the Attribute Explorer, right-click on a data stream and select Display
Message Browser.
The Message Browser combines an event panel (sequentially listing call events) with a
panel of Layer 3 messaging, allowing you to pinpoint the root causes of problems.
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Select one of the display methods to open the appropriate data display window.
The legend panel shows the how the various colors used relate to values for the
particular attribute. The number in parentheses is the number of binned data
points for that value range that occurs in the logged data, followed by the
percentage of the total number of binned data points.
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If there are no other attribute layers on this map, the new attribute layer will be
beneath the lowest site or cell layer. See the chapter Configuring Analyzer for
more information on map layers.
2 Click on the Pan button.
3 Click and drag the data around the map window.
4 Experiment with the Zoom buttons.
5 In the Attribute Explorer, open the 'Event Data' set and drag an event type (in this
example the Uu_CallDropped event) onto the map, which should then look similar
to this:
Adding events to the mapped data can help you see where problems are occurring.
6 Drag another attribute onto the map.
The attribute information is displayed on a new map layer directly above the
previous attribute layer.
You can also change the size, symbol or color of the data, apply offsets to an
attribute or merge attributes for a multidimensional display. See the online help for
further details.
7 To hide the data for an attribute, go to the legend pane and click in the check box
beside the attribute name.
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To move through the messages by one message at a time, click on a Step button:
Several clicks may be required before any change is visible on the Map, depending on the
binning settings.
To move through each message at a set speed, click a Play button:
This will move through the data at a multiple of real-time speed set using the slider (if the
Play by Time option is selected – see below).
The Mode dropdown button allows you to set the replay mode:
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You can synchronize all views in other open data windows by clicking on the
timeline in Navigator-type StateForms like this.
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Other StateForms provide information for the currently selected point in the drive
test:
3 If you have scanner data in your logfile, start another Form window.
4 Right-click on the form and select Open File, then select a form (.axw) file for a
scanner.
5 Right-click on the form and select Stream Selector, then the scanner stream.
See the online help for details on how to create your own forms.
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From the Attribute Explorer window, use the pop-up menu to display a data
attribute (in this example, 'EcIo_1stBest') in a chart window.
Select a second attribute that would make a useful comparison (in this example,
the attribute 'ForwardFER') and drag it onto the existing chart.
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Note that the zoom only operates in the X-axis, not in the
Y-axis.
3 Now return the chart its original state by dragging a box anywhere, but this time
starting from the bottom.
To pan and scroll around the chart
Put the cursor within the chart window, hold the right mouse button down and
drag the cursor around to pan and scroll around the chart window.
Although you can scroll in the X-axis for all attributes on the chart, you can only
pan in the Y-axis for the last attribute to be displayed on the chart.
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2 Click on a data point - a line appears at the equivalent time on the chart:
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Filter queries
Binned queries
Histogram queries
Statistical queries
Crosstab queries
Event queries
You can also:
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3 Click on the right-arrow of the attribute picker and select, for example, CDMA >
DownLink Measurements > ForwardFER.
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1 From the View tab, select Workbook and select an appropriate Excel template.
2 Click Open.
3 Select the data source that you want to view in the workbook report.
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You can proceed to adapt the workbook, use other Excel tools on the data, and so
on.
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Beneath each device in the Attribute Explorer, you can see the attributes and queries that
are part of that device. The structure of the devices and their attributes, queries, and
filters are defined by the template that was used to create the repository and cannot be
changed after the repository has been created. Sometimes each device might have a
different list of attributes and queries and sometimes some or all of the devices might have
the same lists.
When you right-click an attribute or binned query in the Attribute Explorer, you get options
to display it on the Map and other binned data viewing components and to see its
definition in the Attribute Help system.
When you right-click a crosstab or event query in the Attribute Explorer, you have the
option to open the Repository Statistics Explorer, which provides useful features for
exploring the summary views that the crosstab queries provide.
Typically, an engineering process module that uses Repository Manager will retrieve
crosstab data from the repository and display it in a table or chart embedded on the task
page.
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2 Select the Template on which you want to base the repository and enter a Name
and Description.
3 Do one of the following:
▫ Click Create & Open, if you want to open the new repository after it has
been created.
▫ Click Create, if you do not want to open the new repository immediately
after it is created.
2 Select the repository you want to open and then click OK.
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4 Use the Add Files button to select individual log files to load. When you select a
file, it is automatically added to the list of files in the center of the Load Data
dialog box.
5 Use the Add Folders button to select folders that contain log files to load.
Selecting a folder automatically selects all of the files in that folder and all of its
subfolders and adds them to the list of files in the Load Data dialog box.
6 You can remove files from the list by selecting them individually or in groups
(using Shift-click and Ctrl-click) and then clicking Remove.
7 You can also remove files from the list by entering an expression into the Filter
dialog box and then clicking Apply. This removes from the list all of the files that
do not meet the filter expression.
The expression should use a combination of text and wildcard characters to specify
the name patterns of the log files that you want to include. You can include
multiple patterns using the semicolon (;) character. The following table provides
details of the valid wildcard characters.
Wildcard Description
* Matches zero or more characters.
? Matches a single character.
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Example Selects
*.log;*Friday*.sd5 All files that have a .log filename extension and all log files whose
names contain the text "Friday" and that have an .sd5 filename
extension.
*08-??-2004*.dat Only files that have a .dat filename extension and whose names
contain the characters "08-" followed by any two characters and then
followed by the characters "-2004". In practice this could be used to
select files whose names contain any date in August 2004 specified in
the American short date style.
Clicking the Apply button applies the expression to the files listed in the box
above. Note that clearing the expression and clicking Apply again does not cancel
any filtering that was applied earlier.
8 When the list reflects the files that you want to load, click OK to start the loading
process.
Notes:
Repository Manager does not reload files that are already in the repository.
Repository Manager will try to load all files in the list, but if any files cannot be
loaded, Repository Manager will simply move on to the next file.
When the file loading process has finished, Repository Manager shows a list of each
file loading attempt.
A result of ‘OK’ means only that the log file was successfully processed, but does
not necessarily mean that any data was loaded into the repository. For example, a
log file might show as ‘OK’ although none of its data loaded into the repository
because it did not meet any of the loading criteria defined for the devices, or if it
did, the log file did not actually contain any of the attributes defined for those
devices nor any data that matched the queries. See Repository Template Wizard:
Define Devices in the online help for more information.
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Open the Template Manager, select the template you want to change, and then
click Edit. This takes you straight to the Combine or Separate Data? page.
To delete an unwanted template
Open the Template Manager, select the template you want to delete, and then
click Delete.
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iDEN
Imported Analyzer Analyzer Name Purpose
Parameter Group
Site Name IDEN_Site SiteName Text description of the Site for
display on map.
Site Number IDEN_Site SiteID Numeric identifier for the Site.
Latitude IDEN_Site Latitude Locates Site icons on map.
Longitude IDEN_Site Longitude Locates Site icons on map.
Sector Number IDEN_Cell Sector ID Can use Sector-specific information useful
1,2,3, etc, or a for display on maps.
combination of
site numbers
Azimuth IDEN_Cell Azimuth Orients the sector icons on the
map.
Beamwidth IDEN_Cell Beamwidth Governs the shape of the sector
'wedge' icon to reflect the
beamwidth of antenna deployed at
the site.
Base Station IDEN_Cell EIRP Base Station Power.
Power
Common IDEN_Cell CCCH Can be used to color the sector
Control wedges.
Channel
Color Codes IDEN_Cell Color_Codes A list of color codes separated by
semicolons. This list is designed to
match the entries in the TCH_List
field. Used for determining likely
serving and neighbor cells.
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LTE
Imported Analyzer Analyzer Name Purpose
Parameter Group
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Layer1 Cell LTE_Cell PCI The physical layer cell identity. This
Identity field and DL_EARFCN must be
present for lines to cells to work.
* Optional.
UMTS / HSPA+
Imported Analyzer Analyzer Name Purpose
Parameter Group
Site Name UMTS_Site SiteName Text description of the Site for
display on map.
Site Number UMTS_Site SiteID Numeric identifier for the site.
Latitude UMTS_Site Latitude Locates site icons on map.
Longitude UMTS_Site Longitude Locates site icons on map.
Sector UMTS_Cell Sector_ID Sector-specific information useful
Number for display on maps (can be alpha
or numeric)
Azimuth UMTS_Cell Azimuth Orients the sector icons on the
map.
Beamwidth UMTS_Cell Beamwidth Governs the shape of the sector
“wedge” icon to reflect the
beamwidth of antenna deployed at
the site.
SC UMTS_Cell SC Used for cell site identification and
to calculate lines to cells.
EIRP* UMTS_Cell EIRP Equivalent Isotropic Radiated
Power – for informational purposes
only.
MCC* UMTS_Cell MCC Mobile Country Code – for
informational purposes only.
MNC* UMTS_Cell MNC National Domain Code – for
informational purposes only.
LAC* UMTS_Cell LAC Location Area Code – for
informational purposes only.
CI* UMTS_Cell CI Cell Identity – for informational
purposes only.
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Index
A
Analysis Manager, 47
H
help, context, 8
analysis options
Histogram queries, 47
selecting, 32
HSPA+ cell site parameters, 63
Annotations, 22
application packs, 34
applications, 5 I
Attribute Explorer, 55 iDEN cell site parameters, 61
attribute help, 8 Index tab, online help, 7
Attribute Spy, 33 integrating data files, 46
attributes, 29 investigate streams, 33
right-clicking on, 37
searching for, 29 L
Layer 3 messaging, 35
B Layer Control dialog, 21
Binned queries, 47 Lines to Cells, 24
location binning, 20
C LTE cell site parameters, 62
CDMA cell site parameters, 13, 59
cellrefs, 12, 14, 26, 34 M
Contents tab, online help, 7 MapInfo data types, 22
context help, 8 message binning, 20
Create a New Filter, 47 Message Browser, 29, 35
Create Repository, 53 message filtering, 20
Crosstab queries, 47 Microsoft Excel reports, 50
multidimensional display, 38
D
data attributes, 29 N
data integration, 46 Network Explorer, 12, 26
data streams, 29
Delete Repository, 57 O
Display Attribute Spy, 33 online help, using the, 7
Display Message Browser, 35 Open Logfile, 28
Display on Table, 44
Open Repository, 54
Display on Workbook, 44
Open Workbook, 50
distance binning, 20
P
E panning chart windows, 43
EDGE cell site parameters, 60
panning map windows, 38
engineering process, 10
Preferences dialog, 20, 21
Excel templates, 50 Protocol Stack Browser, 36
F R
Favorites tab, Attribute Explorer, 27
Replay feature, 39
Favorites tab, online help, 7
reports, 50
filenames, 29 Repository Manager, 52
Filter queries, 47 Repository Template Wizard, 57
Find Attribute, 29 reverse and forward link data integration, 46
Forms feature, 40 right-clicking on attributes, 37
G S
generating reports, 50 Search tab, online help, 7
geographical data, 21 searching for attributes, 29
GSM/GPRS cell site parameters, 60
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