“RF planning is required in every mobile network deployment so we know where to install our 5G base stations to provide the best possible quality of service to our customers,” said Benoit Badard, director of radio engineering and performance department at Orange. “Utilizing 5G in the centimetric band makes this exercise very different from what it used to be in previous technologies because it exploits much higher frequencies together with sophisticated beam forming. We now need to rely on more accurate analysis that requires 3D maps with a high level of detail.”
“5G requires a new way to think about RF planning,” said Daniel Borrás, head of marketing and business strategy at Samsung Networks Europe. “This requires sophisticated 3D maps containing geometrical and morphological information of the surroundings to predict how the signals will behave. LuxCarta is very well positioned to provide this information.”
“LuxCarta is pleased to support Samsung and Orange Romania in their 5G trials and we are confident our geodata will successfully simulate the trial area,” said Albéric Maumy, managing director of LuxCarta. “We worked very hard before the 5G standard was finalized to be ready for the market. By participating in many trials, we’re confident our new 3D tree model provides the critical accuracy required for modeling the precise propagation characteristics of mmWave frequencies for 5G.”