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WIRELESS NETWORK PLANNING FOR MISSION

CRITICAL and BUSINESS CRITICAL APPLICATIONS Public Safety APCO P25 TETRA DMR LTE SCADA MAS Microwave Trunked and Conventional LMR

SYSTEM APPLICATIONS AND OVERVIEW

LMR Planner© is a user friendly, multi-technology capable, wireless network planning and engineering software tool that operates on Microsoft Windows 10 operating system. It is easy to use yet thorough in its unique approach to system design and analysis. LMR Planner© is designed to maximize compatibility with standard Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel, Access and MapPoint, offering one of the most sought-after IT solutions for the Public Safety, Utilities, Cellular/PCS, Wireless Internet Service Provider (ISP) and Site Management industries.

Delivering the “Three Cs” of a Mission Critical First Responder System: Coverage, Capacity and Connectivity

LMR PLANNER’S 26 YEAR HISTORY LMR Planner was born from the same minds that, in 1990, developed a fast, user-friendly radio propagation and network planning tool capable of utilizing terrain and land cover databases from different countries with the majority of its functionality driven through a graphical user interface (or GUI). That application ran on a Sun Microsystems© UNIX system and was known as “Romulus”.

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During the development of Romulus, published, time-tested models were implemented including Okumura-Hata, Bullington, and Longley-Rice among others. With the emergence of laptop computing, RF engineering departments moved from a centralized processing organization to a mobile and agile work force. Romulus developers re-engineered the tool and created “Romulus PC©” to ensure compatibility with newer Windows Operating Systems. Romulus PC© was later rebranded as “Comsite©”. The new Comsite© software tool became a powerhouse and was distributed throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, Central America and friendly Middle East nations; always steadfast in promoting and delivering on its core value proposition – reliability, accuracy and ease of use. Those key developers and engineers that originated the tool over 26 years ago came together in 2016 to create LMR Planner©. This new tool provides similar ease of use and unequaled performance reliability, and is fully developed on and compatible with Microsoft Windows 10©.

LMR PLANNER’S CORE FUNCTIONALITY

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LMR Planner is designed by and for LMR Radio Engineers, Technicians, Project Managers and Network IT Professionals that are committed to deploying, enhancing or upgrading radio systems that deliver the highest level of network coverage and access reliability.

Compatibility with high quality mapping through Google Earth™ Microsoft Word© compatible output reports Outputs compatible with Adobe Acrobat .pdf files Import site lists in .XLS format ESRI™ .SHP file import compatibility Signal strength measurement data import and display Propagation model calibration (tuning) Path profile viewer with terrain and clutter display Microwave point to point/point to multipoint mesh module Antenna height optimizer tool Automatic linking of microwave sites Automatic linking of SCADA and RTUs Automatic linking of 5G Small Cells Nearest airport locator (for airport authority coordination) AM tower locator (for broadcast station coordination) Automatic frequency planning and assignment (AFP+A©) Wireless technology assignment by sector/site Sector/site based propagation modeling Allowance for Different T/O and T/B Portable Antenna Heights Delivered Audio Quality (DAQ) calculations

WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES SUPPORTED IN LMR PLANNER©

LMR PLANNER is suited to analyze and plan a variety of systems ranging in frequency from 30 MHz to over 100 GHz. Each of the various system types may coexist on the same support structure, but analyzed independently of others without the need to create separate project files. The user decides which technologies to evaluate by simply selecting which subscriber or field unit type base stations will communicate. Examples of the wireless network technologies supported by LMR Planner include but are not limited to:

LMR Technologies

APCO P25, TETRA, DMR, EDACS©, OpenSky, ASTRO©, MPT1327©, MultiNet©, MOTOTRBO©

SmartZone©, iDEN©, and LTE

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oint-to-Po Broadband Wireless

LTE, WiMAX/IEEE 802.16, IEEE 802.1x WiFi (2.4 and 5.9 GHz), Canopy

Cellular / Wireless Data

GSM, UMTS WCDMA, CDMA IS95, LTE, Mobitex©, GPRS, GPRS, EDGE, EVDO, HSPA, WiMAX

Remote Data Acquisition

SCADA/MAS, SmartGrid Applications

Digital Mobile Radio

Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) Motorola MotoTrbo©, ICOM NEXTEDGE©, Hytera DMR©,

TAIT/HARRIS DRM

RADIO PROPAGATION and DIFFRACTION MODEL OPTIONS in LMR PLANNER©

LMR PLANNER allows the flexibility to properly assign propagation model and characteristics to each site and antenna system/sector on a site. Each model may be independently corrected with field measurement data through LMR PLANNER’s propagation model calibration module. The propagation models available to a user include: Okumura-Hata-Davidson Adaptive COST231 Okumura-Hata Adaptive Longley-Rice Adaptive ITM (Irregular Terrain Model) Adaptive Walfishe-Ikegami ITU-525, Free Space Propagation+ Diffraction FCC R-6406 (Carey) FCC R-6602 Bullington Single Knife-Edge Diffraction Epstein-Peterson Multiple Knife-Edge Diffraction Deygout Multiple Knife-Edge Diffraction Giovaneli Multiple Knife-Edge Diffraction

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LMR PLANNER provides the user the ability to choose from 21 different radio propagation models, 6 different diffraction models and 4 methods of computing effective antenna heights.

SUPPORTED DATABASES and DATA LAYERS

To support network and traffic engineering studies LMR PLANNER makes available to the user a wide variety of databases and map display options that include: Sun-shaded terrain map overlay Elevation thematic mapping Regional planning boundaries Microwave interconnect route map Microwave antenna database Base station antenna database Digital elevation models (better than 1m resolution) Land use Land cover / clutter database ESRI .shp Streets, roads and railways, lakes, rivers and streams Administrative political boundaries State, County, City, Zip/Postal codes Economic trading boundaries (MTA, BTA, MSA, RSA, EA’s) Population density by zip/postal code Population density by County Base station model types and parameters Gas and Oil pipelines Crane and ITU Rainfall rate and attenuation data Subscriber unit types and parameters

Microwave or Mesh Network Route Map

3D Display and Coverage Visualization

FCC Regulatory Contour Analysis

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ENGINEERING ANALYSES AND STUDIES

Coverage studies, Interference analyses, Traffic Analysis, Frequency planning

LMR Planner© provides the means to produce a host of essential engineering analyses allowing its user to assess an existing or proposed telecom site for service area coverage, quality of service (QoS), grade of service (GoS). The analyses provided by the software include:

Co-channel(C/I+N) interference

Adjacent channel interference

TSB-88 Simulcast Time delay interference (TDI)

TSB-88 Time Delay Interference Analysis

Best, second and third best server up to “N-th” site

Forward link best server

Reverse link best server (Receiver voting)

Forward and reverse channel reliability analysis

Multi-site, multi-signal, multi-channel analysis

Point to point microwave link engineering

Point to multipoint (Hub to CPE, SCADA Master to RTU, AIS Base to Receiver, etc.)

Propagation model calibration (tuner)

DAQ (Delivered Audio Quality) coverage

Differential coverage analysis (Delta-Plot)

Desired and Undesired Interference Analysis

LTE Maximum Available Rate

Handover/Handoff analysis (Multi-cast systems)

Thermal fade margin calculation

Reflection point identification

Link reliability analysis (Vigants and ITU 530)

TSB-88 Time Delay Interference Analysis

Support of P25 CQPSK and C4FM Modulation

Boundary area percent coverage (BAPC)

Optimal antenna height calculator

Contour analysis

Automatic and manual frequency assignment

Neighbor site/Roam list creation

Interference and signal source identifier

Outage calculation in seconds per year

Crane and ITU rain attenuation models

Channel export to intermodulation interference analysis

Measurement data statistical and graphical analysis

Serving Site Count Coverage

LTE Broadband MIMO Antenna Configuration

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Land Mobile Radio (LMR) Systems, Mesh Networks, Microwave Backhaul Point to Point , SCADA,

MAS, AMR, and Smart Grid with Smart Automatic Linking Tool©

APCO P25, TETRA, DMR, EDACS©, OpenSky©, ASTRO©, MPT1327©, MultiNet©, MOTOTRBO© SmartZone©, iDEN©, and LTE

INDUSTRY STANDARDS and COMPLIANCE REFERENCES LMR Planner is based on many industry recommendations for wireless network planning that aim to accurately characterize the mobile radio propagation environment. A selected list of internationally recognized standards on which these applications are based is included below: TIA/EIA TSB-88 Wireless Communications Systems Performance in Noise and Interference Limited

Situations – Recommended Methods for Technology Independent Modeling, Simulation and Verification

ERL 79-ITS 67 Prediction of Tropospheric Radio Transmission Loss Over Irregular Terrain (A.G. Longley,

P.L. Rice), Tropospheric Telecommunications Laboratory, Institute of Telecommunication Sciences

FCC OET-72 Federal Communications Commission Office of Engineering and Technology (FCC OET)

Bulletin 72, The ILLR (Individual Location Longley-Rice) Program set forth by the Federal Communications Commission in Docket No. 98-201)

FCC OET-69 Longley-Rice Methodology for Evaluating TV Coverage and Interference FCC OET-65 Evaluating Compliance with FCC Guidelines for Human Exposure to Radiofrequency

Electromagnetic Fields ANSI/EN 62320 Maritime Navigation and Radio Communication Equipment and Systems – Automatic

Identification System (AIS) ITU-R M.1371 Technical Characteristics for an Automatic Identification System (AIS) Using Time

Division Multiple Access in the VHF Maritime Mobile Band ITU-R SM.1134 Intermodulation Interference Calculations in the Land-Mobile Service ITU-R P.530-8 Propagation Data and Prediction Methods Required for The Design of Terrestrial Line-

of-Sight Systems ITU-R P.837-3 Characteristics of Precipitation for Propagation Modeling ITU-R P.838-1 Specific Attenuation model for Rain for Use in Prediction Methods

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ITU-R P.525-2 Calculation of Free-Space Attenuation ITU-R P.452-9 Prediction Procedure for the Evaluation of Microwave Interference between Stations

on the Surface of the Earth at Frequencies above about 0.7 GHz ITU-R P.453-8 The Radio Refractive Index: Its Formula and Refractivity Data ITU-R F.1093-1 Effects of Multipath Propagation on the Design and Operation of Line-of-Sight Digital

Radio-Relay Systems ITU-R M.1215 Guidelines for Evaluation of Radio Transmission Technologies ITU-R P.368 Groundwave Propagation Curves for Frequencies between 10 kHz and 30 MHz. ITU-R P.370 VHF and UHF Propagation Curves for the Frequency Range from 30 MHz to 1000 MHz. ITU-R P.1137 Prediction of Sky-Wave Field Strength at Frequencies between 150 and 1705 kHz. ITU-R P.834 Effects of Tropospheric Refraction on Radio Wave Propagation ITU-R P.372 Radio Noise ETSI ETR 300-1 Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA)

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Telephone: 1-866-4-LMR-PLAN

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Email: rlopez@rlacommunications.com

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