The Toolbox

We use the term tools rather than software since they stem from a network engineers needs rather than a software engineers capability. Our toolbox is deployed as a package together with our experts. The software is used not only by the Solnem experts but also by the operators and vendors. Our toolbox is multi-vendor and multi-technology supporting the major equipment suppliers across GSM, CDMA, UMTS, LTE and WiMAX.

We believe in hitting the ground running, from the outset of our tool design was an aim to not re-invent the wheel or introduce new interfaces that require detailed training. We try rather, to rely on proven front-end tools available, whether it is Mapinfo, QGIS, Google Maps/Earth, Excel and browsers. This also allows focus towards the engine development rather than GUI. The majority of the software deployed is open-source and licensed under GPL, connecting all this together are our core engines to deliver information to the database and the engineers. Deployment of the tool has been performed where under a multi-vendor environment vendors were allowed access to the database, our administration manager software ensured different user profiles only allowed access for those vendors to their statistics and configuration and not to other vendors - this was critical to ensure a level playing field between vendor competitors. Deployments of our software have been performed literally within days, due to the use of scalable architecture we have been able to re-use existing servers to host the service.