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 claimed to be the first ACP for LTE, while the 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(tm) 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."