Wireless: Data Analysis Tool Tracks RF Interference, Propagation Issues

Sept. 15, 2005

The Clarify Explorer, a data analysis and decision tool designed for use with the company's Clarify tools, provides comprehensive propagation and interference profiles for cellular networks. It works with this information to highlight problem areas and identify interference sources, enabling engineers to resolve difficult RF interference and propagation problems. Explorer also enhances the value of Clarify data performing troubleshooting and problem-solving operations. The Clarify product line consists of the Clarify Collector scanner platform and the Clarify Analyzer processing system, which offer nonintrusive data collection, high dynamic range measurements, and the ability to export critical results to other engineering tools used in propagation modeling, frequency planning, and cell site optimization applications. Contact the company for tool pricing.

PCTel Inc.
www.pctel.com

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Dave Bursky

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Dave Bursky, the founder of New Ideas in Communications, a publication website featuring the blog column Chipnastics – the Art and Science of Chip Design. He is also president of PRN Engineering, a technical writing and market consulting company. Prior to these organizations, he spent about a dozen years as a contributing editor to Chip Design magazine. Concurrent with Chip Design, he was also the technical editorial manager at Maxim Integrated Products, and prior to Maxim, Dave spent over 35 years working as an engineer for the U.S. Army Electronics Command and an editor with Electronic Design Magazine.