Our mobile network ecosystem is becoming more and more dynamic and complex for mobile network operators (MNOs), with a great deal of the pressure coming from the technological evolution in telecommunications. Today it's critical for MNOs to efficiently collect and process data quickly and accurately. To address this need, Rohde & Schwarz launched its next-generation benchmarking solution, featuring the Benchmarker 3 data-collection platform. Its novel features enable MNOs to reduce complexity and costs while gaining insights in the collected data.
Benchmarker 3 is the company’s third-generation hardware and the technological core of the data-collection equipment, with a reduced footprint for easier installation and fewer computing components for the same number of measurement devices. Airflow management allows for temperature control, and the modular concept enables easy expansion for new installations as well as existing Benchmarker II systems.
Offering higher performance and a more compact design, the solution is lighter, consumes less power, and is fully backward compatible with the components of Benchmarker II. Along with the launch of Benchmarker 3, Rohde & Schwarz is introducing smart end-to-end campaign automation management to automate multiple background tasks for the entire workflow of a network benchmarking measurement campaign.
The company enhanced its SmartAnalytics suite with new features, including the generation of automated insights and reports and more efficient management of big data from continuous benchmarking campaigns. Combining special data structures for long-term and historical trend analysis as well as smart end-to-end campaign automation and machine-learning-assisted test use cases, SmartAnalytics can extract more value out of collected data in a shorter time than ever before.
These network benchmarking solutions support the ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) harmonized test methodology documented in TR 103 559. The integrative scoring methodology indicates the network performance based on terabytes of aggregated data in a single performance score per operator.
SmartAnalytics offers a seamless direct drill-down feature that navigates in a few clicks from the high-level view to the application view and down to lower layers, including the physical network layer. Users can retrieve single test samples from terabytes of data, identify root-causes of failed test samples, and understand how these impact Quality of Experience (QoE).
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