Planet | RF Planning and Optimization Software

5G employs radically new technologies like massive MIMO and flexible numerology, as well as new bands like sub-6 and mmWave. Planet has been developed to support 5G NR use cases like eMBB, FWA or URLLC, and complies with the latest 3GPP standards. With true 3D planning capabilities, Planet helps your engineers to make the right design and optimization decisions. By simplifying the design and evolution of complex 4G/5G networks, Planet helps you to transition to 5G faster and at a lower cost. 

In many cities, 70-80% of mobile broadband traffic comes from indoor locations. This means the subscribers are not necessarily at ground level, making traditional 2D planning ineffective. It is therefore critical to be able to plan your network in 3D. Planet natively supports 3D planning and optimization with support for high-resolution 3D geodata including building and vegetation vectors, 3D propagation models with ray-launching, 3D traffic maps, 3D beamforming analysis and 3D site-selection.

Planet allows you to combine live network measurements including crowdsourced data, social media, and call traces with predictions, to connect your plans with reality and ultimately improve the accuracy of your planning and optimization. With seamless integration of call trace data and direct access to crowdsourced data, your engineers have an unprecedented level of geolocated insights into mobile subscribers' behavior and coverage experience directly inside their planning solution.

The Planet ACP module allows you to quickly create and evaluate network upgrade scenarios such as 5G overlay or 4G capacity expansion. It includes automated site placement capabilities to perform dimensioning and initial planning of new wireless networks, geographical expansions, or technology overlays like 5G rollout scenarios. In addition to performance KPIs, Planet ACP can consider revenue, time-to-market, and total cost of ownership models for a plan that balances ROI and performance.

Planet offers seamless integration with the world leading in-building RF design solution from iBwave. The integrated solution enables unification of indoor and surrounding outdoor network RF design activities. With it, you can automatically pull RF prediction data generated by Planet into iBwave Design for greater indoor prediction accuracy, as well as send indoor prediction information to Planet to greatly improve RF designs for campus outdoor environments.

Whether you are looking to deploy a greenfield network, a technology overlay such as 5G, or just expand your existing network, there are many different approaches you could take. Strategic RAN planning helps establish the cost vs. benefit of various scenarios to meet your business objectives.  Planet’s what-if scenario planning and unmatched post-processing analysis of simulations helps you determine the best solution from both a network performance and a cost standpoint.