Cardiff, UK - Keima Limited announce the release of version 2.3 of their popular product line, Overture. Following hot-on-the-heels of 2.2 (released in June 2010), this release provides the following features and enhancements:
Founding director Dr Steve Margetts commented
The investments we have made in our product platform over the last four years are allowing us to add features in a fast and agile way. Our vision of solutions that keep pace with the quickly evolving telecommunications market is now bearing fruit.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
| Keima Limited: |
| Dr Rupert Rawnsley, Director |
| Tel: +44 29 2023 3090 |
| rupert.rawnlsey@keima.co.uk |
| www.keima.co.uk |
EDITORIAL NOTE
About Keima Limited
Keima is a UK limited company, founded in January 2006 and based at the Cardiff Business and Technology Centre. Keima's founders have been key to the delivery a large number of innovative and industry leading planning and optimization solutions to the wireless industry since the days of GSM. Focusing on the needs of new technology operators, Keima are developing the next generation of network planning and optimization solutions based upon their Overture platform.
Cardiff, UK - Keima Limited announce the release of version 2.2 of their popular product line, Overture. This release provides the following features and enhancements:
Complementing the release of Overture 2.2, Keima are pleased to announce a suite of tutorials and self-study guides hosted on their website, http://OvertureOnline.com/Support.aspx
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CONTACT INFORMATION
| Keima Limited: |
| Dr Rupert Rawnsley, Director |
| Tel: +44 29 2023 3090 |
| rupert.rawnlsey@keima.co.uk |
| www.keima.co.uk |
EDITORIAL NOTE
About Keima Limited
Keima is a UK limited company, founded in January 2006 and based at the Cardiff Business and Technology Centre. Keima's founders have been key to the delivery a large number of innovative and industry leading planning and optimization solutions to the wireless industry since the days of GSM. Focusing on the needs of new technology operators, Keima are developing the next generation of network planning and optimization solutions based upon their Overture platform.
Herndon, VA and Cardiff, UK - Keima Joins CFN Wireless Jumpstart® Ecosytem to Provide Wireless Infrastructure Services to all types of Wireless Providers
CFN Services is announcing a program to support wireless infrastructure from core to tower. Wireless Jumpstart® was developed to help wireless providers with all aspects of the wireless infrastruture, from business cases to planning, design through implementation; for new markets, to upgrade existing markets and for new wireless providers. Wireless Jumpstart® can help expedite the time from planning to implementation. CFN Wireless Jumpstart® is an ecosystem of the leading firms to support all areas of the infrastructure such as RF design, site acquisition; planning the backhaul; making decisions regarding RAN and DAS if required, deciding between microwave, satellite and fiber. This program provides professional services, tools and financing options to allow wireless providers the ability to focus on the core business of providing wireless broadband everywhere.
The right partners and tools can make the difference. Working with the best tools provides the ability to expedite some of the backend work that is required for successful network implementations. Utilizing CFN FiberSource®, the industry's best and most comprehensive telecom infrastructure knowledge-base tool, allows a firm to quickly identify and design optimized network configurations. Utilizing CFN Jumpstart® ecosystem partner Keima provides access to the Overture tool. Overture helps automate wireless network design. It has powerful analyses, process automation, simple installation, and monthly leasing; which allows for a better, faster and less expensive network planning process. Overture has already been used to design thousands of wireless 3G and 4G cell sites nationwide. Wireless carriers can benefit through Jumpstart® by utilizing Keima’s Overture in conjunction with CFN’s Fibersource to essentially anchor network designs based on the best backhaul choices, a “first” and a tremendous benefit to the industry.
Judy May CFN Marketing VP states,
With the advent of smart phones driving so much data it is causing wireless providers to re-evaluate their infrastructure, specifically around backhaul and how decisions during planning effect the ability to provide adequate backhaul. This is where Wireless Jumpstart can help alleviate their concerns. Bringing together a best of breed ecosystem
CFN Services Jump Start offerings expedite network planning and design; backhaul optimization and data center consolidation projects, thus allowing companies to move away from planning and begin to engage in implementation. As these projects are completed, the end results will allow companies the ability to provide new offerings to customers in the 3G, 4G wireless space, provide Greener Data Centers and provide further reach of broadband to more communities.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
| CFN Services: | Keima Limited: |
| Judy May | Dr Rupert Rawnsley, Director |
| Tel: +1703 788 6534 | Tel: +44 29 2023 3090 |
| judy.may@cfnservices.com | rupert.rawnlsey@keima.co.uk |
| http://www.cfnservices.com | www.keima.co.uk |
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About CFN Services
CFN Services is a managed telecom infrastructure services company providing network services for the Enterprise, Public Sector, Carrier and Wireless Markets, specializing in ultra-low latency networking, middle mile and last mile optimization and mobile backhaul. CFN Services leverages FiberSource®, a global knowledge-based platform that identifies all available dark and lit fiber, collocation, towers, structures and lit buildings; providing network design, planning, deployment, and managed services offerings. For more information: http://www.cfnservices.com
FiberSource Attributes:
About Keima Limited
Keima is a UK limited company, founded in January 2006 and based at the Cardiff Business and Technology Centre. Keima's founders have been key to the delivery a large number of innovative and industry leading planning and optimization solutions to the wireless industry since the days of GSM. Focusing on the needs of new technology operators, Keima are developing the next generation of network planning and optimization solutions based upon their Overture platform.
Cardiff, UK - Keima Limited announce the release of version 2.0 of the Overture product line. Overture 2.0 expands support for next generation technologies and introduces the productivity enhancing Data Manager module.
Keima Director Dr Rupert Rawnsley said:
The initial release of the Overture solution and its web portal [http://OvertureOnline.com] changed the way software is sold in our sector. Overture 2.0 continues in that same spirit, and goes further than ever before in delivering on our promise of better, faster, and cheaper. This is a planning solution for the next step in wireless network deployment.
Overture 2.0 has increased capabilities for technology-specific planning problems. For LTE it is now possible to plan site locations, physical antenna parameters (height, azimuth, mechanical tilt, antenna type), electrical tilt, channels, and cell ID’s. WCDMA support has been extended to support multi-carrier deployment and scrambling code planning. Overture 2.0 also supports GSM frequency hopping including mixed-mode deployments.
Keima Director Dr Stephen Margetts pointed out:
Overture 2.0 continues the trend of competitive and public pricing that has proved so popular with customers. This industry-first has put pressure on our competitors who must explain why their pricing is so complicated and secretive.
Overture 2.0 improves parameter planning for all technologies with a flexible new layer model that can simulate hierarchical relationships (such as segmentation in the WiMAX air interface) and complex adjacencies between parameters. This allows for simulation of inter-parameter interference and analysis of resource reuse distances. The result is a faster, more accurate, diagnosis of network problems and a clear route to resolving them.
Increasing network traffic is often being addressed with multi-carrier deployments and Overture 2.0 has an enhanced network model and simulation engine to consider these scenarios in both simulation and planning.
Overture 2.0 has usability and productivity enhancements including simpler statistical modelling, an improved antenna model editor, a streamlined prediction comparison process, a faster installation experience, and greater discoverability.
Overture’s modules have also been updated. The new Data Manager module comes with worldwide 30m terrain data and a full set of GIS data for the US including states, counties, MSA, ZIP, and high-resolution residential population boundaries. Also included are commercial tower provider portfolios for rapid candidate site discovery. The Data Manager uses a scalable cloud-based server to ensure high bandwidth and global availability.
Keima Director Dr Simon Chapman had this to say about the new Data Manager module:
This makes Overture the perfect solution for US network planning tasks such as BTOP / BIP stimulus submissions. It has already been used for more than 100 submitted proposals and we are able to produce designs of the highest accuracy in a fraction of the time it would take in any other planning solution.
The Site Selection and Parameter Optimization modules have been better integrated into the Overture user interface - optimizing a site, cluster, or a whole city is now done with a single click. Optimization can be started and stopped easily for manual inspection and modification. This integrated and interactive approach to RF planning means a faster and more seamless planning experience. Overture’s “Objective” system means that the KPI’s customers care about actually drive the optimization process. This can be critical when considering complex and sometimes contradictory design goals such as border coordination and spectrum restrictions.
Through partnership with market leading data supplier Applied Geographic Solutions, Keima is now able to offer high-resolution US business data through their AGS Data Module. As with Overture’s own Data Manager module, the business data is downloaded directly through the tool itself with no need for tedious file management or complex import procedures. One click of the mouse and the data is available for visualization and statistical analysis.
Overture 2.0 is immediately availabile from http://OvertureOnline.com and prices start from £300 per month.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
| Keima Limited: |
| Dr Rupert Rawnsley, Director |
| Tel: +44 29 2023 3090 |
| rupert.rawnlsey@keima.co.uk |
| www.keima.co.uk |
EDITORIAL NOTE
Keima is a UK limited company, founded in January 2006 and based at the Cardiff Business and Technology Centre. Keima’s founders have been key to the delivery a large number of innovative and industry leading planning and optimization solutions to the wireless industry since the days of GSM. Focusing on the needs of new technology operators, Keima are developing the next generation of network planning and optimization solutions based upon their Overture framework. The expertise of Keima employees enables the company to be both self-financing and profitable.
Cardiff, UK - Telecommunication software experts Keima announce the launch of Overture, their new wireless network planning solution. Overture accelerates network design by combining a modern mapping platform with powerful analyses and process automation.
Overture is the first planning solution to be available directly from the Internet. Keima's new website, http://OvertureOnline.com, supports the whole product life-cycle including installation, purchasing, updates, and support. This gives engineers the freedom to get the tools they need when they need them at a price that reflects today's commercial realities.
Dr Rupert Rawnsley, co-founder of Keima Limited and product director, had this to say:
As the telecommunications market has accelerated, planning engineers have been demanding more than the existing software tools have been able to provide. We took up their challenge of "better, faster, cheaper" and produced Overture, which, along with it's online portal, is truly game changing.
Dr Stephen Margetts, co-founder of Keima Limited and product architect, added:
Innovation is at the heart of Overture. From a variable resolution analysis engine to a "one-click" installation system, we have set a new standard for usability and performance. But telecommunications is a moving target, so the platform has been built for change. As the name suggests, this is just the beginning.
Keima Overture can be extended through easy-to-install modules. This allows bespoke processes, custom analyses, third-party tools and user-defined visualizations to be added to Keima Overture. This also allows customers to pay for what they need when they need it. Three modules accompany the initial release of Overture: Site Selection, Parameter Optimization and the Data Manager.
Keima Overture is available now for technology consultants, network engineering service providers, wireless network operators, and infrastructure vendors. It can be used for overlay planning, candidate selection, network merger integration, site portfolio evaluation, initial parameter planning, late site integration, technology evaluation, network planning and infrastructure vendor evaluation. It supports all major families of wireless technologies, including LTE, WiMAX, GSM, UMTS, and CDMA. Overture is also highly configurable for new technologies or vendor specific extensions.
All pricing is public and the product can be purchased immediately over the Internet. Prices start from £300 per month with discounts for longer leases or volume purchases.
More information about Overture and its suite of modules can be found at http://OvertureOnline.com.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
| Keima Limited: |
| Dr Rupert Rawnsley, Director |
| Tel: +44 29 2023 3090 |
| rupert.rawnlsey@keima.co.uk |
| www.keima.co.uk |
EDITORIAL NOTE
Keima is a UK limited company, founded in January 2006 and based at the Cardiff Business and Technology Centre. Keima’s founders have been key to the delivery a large number of innovative and industry leading planning and optimization solutions to the wireless industry since the days of GSM. Focusing on the needs of new technology operators, Keima are developing the next generation of network planning and optimization solutions based upon their Overture framework. The expertise of Keima employees enables the company to be both self-financing and profitable. Keima is currently expanding its operations in both Europe and North America.
Cardiff, UK - Radio network planning and optimization experts announce the availability of Keima Composer v2.0, the latest release of their next generation mobile network engineering software. Keima Composer accelerates wireless network design and deployment by allowing engineers planning a new technology to cover more sources of revenue with fewer masts, while reducing the duration and cost of the planning process. Keima Composer v2.0 adds antenna configuration, frequency planning, neighbor list generation, paging group planning, network parameter assignment, data integrity validation and plan review. Keima Composer can also be supplemented by bespoke processes, custom analyses and user-defined visualisation, made available through Keima’s Overture Framework.
Existing solutions to these problems, including automatic cell planning (ACP) and radio planning tools, focus strongly upon either complicated simulation or automation of RF planning based upon extensive network measurements, attempting the difficult task of addressing many unique problems with a single solution while trying to predict the future years in advance due to development timescales. Keima’s research has shown that the real problems experienced by operators deploying a new technology relate to prompt consideration of previously unknown emergent technology behaviour, incorporation of new parameter planning, scalability and input data availability/integrity. As a result Keima’s products focus upon rapid adaptation to address new challenges, large area/network/data import analysis and automation of integrity checking, validation and review.
This disruptive approach to wireless engineering is showcased through Keima Composer’s adaptable optimization framework, allowing operators to integrate multi-parameter planning into a single tailored process. Automation can be determined by the client: from single button automation through to branched processes combining automatic planning algorithms with richly interactive validation through mapping and pivot table reporting. Automation can be configured to meet users unique needs, based upon innovations in scriptable constraint and domain definition, extensible network parameter models, hierarchical parameter planning, prioritised statistical objectives and many:many adjacency definition. Composer has been proven in the selection of tens of thousands of sites, and automated configuration planning of thousands of sites, and existing clients have realised eight figure paybacks (£,$ or €) within the first year of engagement.
Rupert Rawnsley, co-founder of Keima with responsibility for product management and business development, commented:
"Keima Composer v2.0 embodies Keima’s vision of the next generation of wireless engineering tools: accuracy through simplicity, efficiency through scalability and speed through flexibility. End-users can be guided through tailor-made expert designed processes, while the value of their experience can be amplified through intuitive visual review and powerful drill-down capabilities. Multi-thousand site networks can be rapidly and seamlessly planned over thousands of square kilometres thanks to proprietary innovations in the field of optimization algorithms and network analysis. Planning of tomorrow’s technologies today is enabled by a uniquely adaptable optimization framework, removing the need for complicated or inaccurate work-arounds in legacy technology tools".
Keima Composer v2.0 is available now for wireless network operators, infrastructure vendors, technology consultants and network engineering service providers. It can be used for applications including overlay planning, candidate selection, network merger integration, site portfolio evaluation, initial parameter planning, late site integration, technology evaluation, network planning and infrastructure vendor evaluation. Designed to accommodate all major families of wireless technologies, including 802.xx, 3GPP, CDMA and DVB. Further releases of Keima Composer planned for 2008 will calibrate network traffic models, applying new approaches to maximising the accuracy of input data, and enhancing further the set of planning tasks addressed.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
| Keima Limited |
| Rupert Rawnsley, Director |
| Tel: +44 29 2023 3090 |
| rupert.rawnsley@keima.co.uk |
| www.keima.co.uk |
EDITORIAL NOTE
Keima is a UK limited company founded in January 2006 and based at the Cardiff Business and Technology Centre. Keima’s founders have been key to the delivery a large number of innovative and industry leading planning and optimization solutions to the wireless industry since the days of GSM. Focusing on the needs of new technology operators, Keima are developing the next generation of network planning and optimization solutions based upon their Overture framework. The expertise of Keima employees enables the company to be both self-financing and profitable. Keima is currently expanding its operations in both Europe and North America.
ALTERNATIVE FORMATS
Cardiff, UK - Wireless network planning and optimization experts Keima and data management experts Eira Software have announced a collaboration that focuses on the application of next-generation embedded database capabilities to wireless engineering software. Wireless engineering applications, such as Keima’s Composer, have numerous data management challenges, including temporal configuration management, multi-Gigabyte input and output data, and deployment to geographically distributed multi-user collaboration environments. Inexpert development of data management capabilities has saddled users with slow application load times, long development timeframes, performance limitations with large data sets, and data integrity problems. Eira’s FirexDB, an embedded database solution, simplifies and speeds up the development of data intensive software, reduces the end-user cost of data management, and improves the performance of applications.
The first joint research-and-development programme will concentrate on the problems of configuration management (specifically related to neighbor planning) and the storage and audit of multiple network configurations, which evolve during network planning and deployment. The focus of this collaboration is the reduction of end-user re-work and the cost of manual plan review and comparison, whilst increasing the integrity of plans uploaded to the network.
Rupert Rawnsley, co-founder of Keima, describes the value of the relationship:
"Wireless engineering requires the management of massive quantities of dynamic data: from propagation predictions and network measurements to equipment configurations and market statistics. Legacy systems have struggled to map this naturally object-oriented data into relational database tables and to efficiently manage the large quantities of data involved. There is clearly a need for high-performance data management solutions that are both simple to develop, robust, and offer best-in-class performance. Eira share our passion for innovation through simplicity, and with our partnership we hope to deliver the next significant step forward for wireless engineering solutions architecture".
Ieuan Williams, founding director of Eira, added:
"When we first spoke with Keima, we discussed the problems experienced by legacy wireless engineering tools: long development timescales, slow application start-up times, inefficiently holding large datasets in memory, distributing multiple copies of Gigabytes of data, and support calls created by corporate database administrators imposing unforeseen database policies. These problems are symptomatic of attempts by non-specialists to use large and overly complex legacy relational database solutions within what should be a shrink-wrapped product, or reliance on poor quality in-house data management solutions. With FirexDB we seek to use the right technology to solve the right problem; to both reduce the overhead of data management for developers and remove the need for expensive database administration skills within end-user organizations. Keima are a perfect collaboration partner, looking beyond both hyped and legacy technologies for innovative solutions to known problems, they are willing to enhance their capabilities through collaboration with experts in other fields".
Both companies are based in the Cardiff Business and Technology Centre enabling efficient communication and interworking.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
| Keima Limited | Eira Limited |
| Rupert Rawnsley, Director | Ieuan Williams, Director |
| Tel: +44 29 2023 3090 | Tel: +44 29 2064 7042 |
| rupert.rawnsley@keima.co.uk | ieuan.williams@eirasoftware.com |
| www.keima.co.uk | www.eirasoftware.com |
EDITORIAL NOTE
Keima is a UK limited company founded in January 2006 and based at the Cardiff Business and Technology Centre. Keima’s founders have been key to the delivery a large number of innovative and industry leading planning and optimization solutions to the wireless industry since the days of GSM. Focusing on the needs of new technology operators, Keima are developing the next generation of network planning and optimization solutions based upon their Overture framework. The expertise of Keima employees enables the company to be both self-financing and profitable. Keima is currently expanding its operations in both Europe and North America.
Eira Software is a UK limited company founded in 2003 and based in the Cardiff Business and Technology Centre. Eira has been involved with cutting edge data management solutions including telecommunications (mobile network billing), sales management (outsourced letting management), and many internet-based applications. FirexDB focuses on the need of software developers for intuitive data management capabilities and end users for low administration applications, overcoming the limitations of large and complex, one-size fits all, legacy relational database solutions.
ALTERNATIVE FORMATS
Cardiff, UK - Wireless network planning and optimization experts Keima have released Composer 1.0. Composer is a software solution for pre-build wireless network design: it allows engineers planning a new wireless technology to cover more sources of revenue with fewer masts, while also reducing the duration and cost of the planning process. Composer provides a disruptive approach to pre-build network design, equally important for both the low-cost business models of new entrants and the cost reduction necessary for established operators deploying a new technology.
Composer 1.0 allows the user to select mast sites from existing portfolios in order to maximize revenue coverage. Advanced geographic visualization allows the user to review and understand the implications of plans, evaluate proposed solutions and validate input data. Comprehensive statistical analysis and rapid site selection allows easy comparison of different rollout strategies, technologies, and infrastructure vendors. Composer is designed to work in conjunction with leading propagation, planning and simulation tools.
Dr Simon Chapman, co-founder of Keima, describes the value of Composer:
"When we validated the SPICE site selection algorithm with a top twenty global operator, we were able to show a reduction in site numbers of more than 30% compared to their existing process, while still covering the same population. This improved plan (which passed a manual review) represents an estimated £4 million in infrastructure capex reduction, plus future savings in opex through reduced equipment maintenance and electricity costs. We have also shown that the tool can significantly increase population coverage compared to existing solutions when using the same site numbers. Since January this year we have used Composer on fee paying projects to select more than 20,000 sites for technologies including mobile WiMAX, proving the scalability and usability of the application".
Rupert Rawnsley, co-founder of Keima with responsibility for product management and business development, added:
"We learnt many lessons from the experiences of 2G and 3G wireless network planning: manually intensive simulation based approaches to planning are time consuming and cannot be understood by non-expert end-users; black-box automatic optimization can be difficult to validate and integrate into a process; overly complicated software solutions are slow to deliver and struggle to keep pace with the rapid development of wireless technology. With Composer we have taken a new approach to pre-build wireless network design, drawing on these lessons. Composer is a decision support solution that increases engineer productivity, rather than an analysis and simulation centric tool. Composer is a focused pre-build design solution: the user is not paying for the unnecessary complication of integrating drive test measurements only applicable after network build, or network statistics only applicable for mature networks. Composer is technology neutral, allowing experts to specify design processes without the need to work around assumptions that are technology or vendor specific, and as such invalid. Composer is simple to use for junior engineers optimizing the plan of a town or city, yet powerful and flexible enough to support complicated nationwide scenario planning by technology experts evaluating rollout strategy".
Composer is available now for wireless network operators, infrastructure vendors, technology consultants and network engineering service providers. It can be used for applications including overlay planning, network merger integration, site portfolio evaluation, technology evaluation and infrastructure vendor evaluation. While designed for the next generation of technologies including WiMAX and outdoor Wi-Fi, Composer’s technology neutral approach means that it can also be applied to 2G and 3G technologies including GSM, CDMA and UMTS. Future releases planned for 2007 will expand the range of parameters which Composer optimizes.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
| Keima Limited: |
| Rupert Rawnsley, Director |
| Tel: +44 29 2023 3090 |
| rupert.rawnsley@keima.co.uk |
| www.keima.co.uk |
EDITORIAL NOTE
Keima is a UK limited company, founded in January 2006 and based at the Cardiff Business and Technology Centre. Keima’s founders have been key to the delivery a large number of innovative and industry leading planning and optimization solutions to the wireless industry since the days of GSM. Focusing on the needs of new technology operators, Keima are developing the next generation of network planning and optimization solutions based upon their Overture framework. The expertise of Keima employees enables the company to be both self-financing and profitable. Keima is currently expanding its operations in both Europe and North America.
Cardiff, UK - Wireless planning and optimization experts Keima have moved to a new suite of offices in the Cardiff Business and Technology Centre in order to provide capacity for planned growth. Contact details are unchanged: the new office suite is at the Cardiff Business and Technology Centre, where Keima had previously leased incubation space. The new office unit represents a threefold increase in floor space in order to provide for planned headcount expansion over the next 18 months.
In order to be accepted into the Cardiff Business and Technology Centre, firms must pass a rigorous evaluation process overseen by the Centre’s board in order to demonstrate that their business plans are viable: the centre specializes in providing accommodation for high growth technology firms that develop innovative technologies, often with close links to local academic research groups. In addition to business accommodation, membership of the centre qualifies Keima for a range of business support services from Cardiff Council and the Welsh Assembly Government, and a Business Development Credit.
Dr Rupert Rawnsley, co-founder of Keima, commented "As with many young technology companies, Keima started as an idea discussed in coffee breaks and living rooms, which was then realized (in its early months) on kitchen tables, in university rooms and at client premises, before strong foundations were built in a cramped cubicle in an incubation unit. Moving to our new suite of offices gives us the sound footing required to grow with our expanding client base, and is funded by the revenue generated from our successes over the first 9 months of operation. Furthermore, the critical evaluation and acceptance of Keima’s business plans by the centre provides an important validation of our proposed business strategy".
CONTACT INFORMATION
| Keima Limited: |
| Rupert Rawnsley, Director |
| Tel: +44 29 2023 3090 |
| rupert.rawnsley@keima.co.uk |
| www.keima.co.uk |
EDITORIAL NOTE
Keima is a UK company, founded in 2006 at the Cardiff Business and Technology Centre. Keima’s founders have been integral team members delivering a large number of innovative planning and optimization solutions to the wireless industry since the days of GSM. Focusing on the needs of WiMAX operators, Keima are developing the next generation of network planning and optimization solutions based upon their Overture platform.
Cardiff, UK / Amsterdam, NL - Wireless planning and optimization experts Keima and Wavecall have formed a partnership to deliver next generation wireless optimization services and software solutions. Keima will implement the industry leading WaveSight propagation model within their planned Overture network optimization platform, and both organizations have agreed to provide joint solutions to network operators and infrastructure vendors on a global basis. Solutions will include software products such as the WaveSight propagation model and Keima planning and optimization solutions, as well as consultancy services and training. The partnership will enable Wavecall and Keima to jointly undertake larger projects and develop their applications more rapidly to address emerging market needs, while maintaining their existing strengths of focus and agility.
Simon Chapman, co-founder of Keima, commented, "It is important that the mobile sector learns the lessons of the recent European UMTS rollout when addressing the challenges of tomorrow's technologies such as WiMAX. Optimization of the radio access network during initial planning is both the cheapest and most effective option: a quick and dirty implementation can lead to an unsatisfactory customer experience delaying mass-market uptake and return on investment. Accurate modelling is essential to this process, and Wavecall’s propagation model is proven to be the best practice for urban planning. We are excited by the prospect of closer collaboration with Wavecall, and developing innovative joint solutions for the sector”. Karim Rizk, CEO and Founder of Wavecall noted, "Wavecall is delighted to work with Keima. Keima’s team is very talented and forward-looking. It has accumulated experience from the GSM/UMTS era and the transition between the two, combined with an in-depth knowledge of 802.16 standards and mesh networks. Keima is therefore a natural partner to extend Wavecall’s offerings for next generation wireless networks such as WiMAX. The optimization solutions from Keima will be tightly linked to WaveSight and both tools will form a cutting edge solution combining the benefits of the optimization and prediction worlds in a unique manner".
CONTACT INFORMATION
| Wavecall SA: | Keima Limited: | |
| Dr. Karim Rizk, CEO | Rupert Rawnsley, Director | |
| Tel: +41 21 693 8405 | Tel: +44 29 2023 3090 | |
| rizk@wavecall.com | rupert.rawnsley@keima.co.uk | |
| www.wavecall.com | www.keima.co.uk |
EDITORIAL NOTE
Wavecall is a Swiss company, founded in 1997 at the Science Park of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, with offices in Holland and the United States. Wavecall has been a market leader in radio wave propagation modeling and services for the wireless communication industry. Wavecall has delivered its propagation engine or/and its professional services to over 40 operators world wide.
Keima is a UK company, founded in 2006 at the Cardiff Business and Technology Centre. Keima’s founders have been integral team members delivering a large number of innovative planning and optimization solutions to the wireless industry since the days of GSM. Focusing on the needs of WiMAX operators, Keima are developing the next generation of network planning and optimization solutions based upon their Overture platform.
We are pleased to announce that Dr Kathryn Jones has joined Keima.
Kathryn has a background in developing wireless optimization technologies, previously having worked on automatic cell planning solutions in both academia and industry. Since 2004 Kathryn worked as a core technologist within the development team for the leading automatic cell planning tool in the North American market. Her academic research in automatic cell planning at Cardiff University focused on the problem of dimensioning complex multi-service data networks. Kathryn will initially be applying this expertise to the next generation of wireless technologies, including Mobile WiMAX and Municipal Wi-Fi.
Keima director Rupert Rawnsley commented "Kathryn's research and development background further strengthens the team at Keima. With her proven experience of solution development with multi-service technologies, Kathryn will be an important part of our drive to develop industry leading approaches to the problem of WiMAX optimization".
Keima is actively seeking to employ research and development software engineers to support ongoing product initiatives. The ideal candidate will be able to apply their knowledge of wireless telephony to solving real-world problems, have a strong research background, and relevant industrial experience. Experience of dimensioning packet-based networks would be an advantage.
Please see jobs for more information, or contact jobs@keima.co.uk.
Keima’s decision to focus on wireless broadband technologies was given a boost with Sprint’s recently announced mobile WiMAX plans (see Sprint Nextel Announces 4G Wireless Broadband Initiative with Intel, Motorola and Samsung). Keima’s founders have a long history in offering optimization products to existing wireless operators and are working on solutions that maximize the effectiveness of these next generation technologies. Check back soon for more details.
Keima will be at the Innovation Marketplace on the 6th of July.
This event is organized by Cardiff's Innovation Network, and brings together innovative and exciting local companies.
Keima has deployed their new website, which gives a full list of the consulting and training services available.
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Keima Ltd ("KeimaTM", pronounced "\kA-ma\") is pleased to announce its incorporation as a limited company based in Cardiff, Wales, effective from 12th January 2006. Keima’s four co-founders, Dr Simon Chapman, Dr Rupert Rawnsley, Dr Steve Margetts and Rupert Rawnsley, have more than 35 years experience in the wireless communications industry, working with global industry leaders in the provision of engineering software solutions and services such as Actix, Agilent, Aircom International and ComOpt. Engineering solutions developed by Keima’s co-founders are in use by top-tier operators and engineering service providers worldwide. Keima intends to develop engineering software solutions to serve the needs of users of future wireless technologies. Keima’s business model is to fund research and development through services work, with an order book sufficient to fund the first year of operations already developed within the first two months of incorporation.
Describing the foundation of Keima, Simon Chapman explained:
"Rupert, Steve and I have worked together as a close-knit and effective team at Cardiff University, ComOpt, Agilent and Actix for the past 8 years. It became clear that there were opportunities in emerging markets that an established company would have difficulty exploiting, due to market size and risk. Richard joins us after a year’s sabbatical from industry at the Judge Business School in Cambridge, complementing the team with a strong background in new technology consultancy, strategy and product management. Richard previously worked with the team at Actix, and with prior experience in operational and strategic environments at Aircom International and TMobile."
Keima’s Ongoing Strategy: Rupert Rawnsley commented upon the choice of Keima as a corporate identity:
"Keima is a figure in the ancient Chinese game of Go regarded as strong, efficient and agile, although also inviting a degree of risk. This perfectly represents the key strengths of Keima, building upon our experience of traditional wireless communications to develop solutions for the disruptive wireless technologies of today and tomorrow, where only a small and dynamic organization can embrace the risk of developing solutions."
Further Steve Margetts underlined the choice of Cardiff as a centre of operations:
"Cardiff provides a natural base for Keima to exploit our close relationships with the university, where much of our ground-breaking work on automatic network planning and optimization took place in the late 1990’s."
The strategic intent of Keima is to develop engineering solutions for next generation of wireless technologies, such as WiMAX, and addressing deployments within license-exempt/unlicensed spectrum. Richard Edge clarified:
"Over the next five years we will see a period of rapid change in both wireless technology and the business models of operators, equipment vendors and engineering service providers, surpassing even the speed of change since the early 1990’s. This is an ideal opportunity for a start-up such as Keima to embark upon a blue ocean strategy, developing new value propositions for markets which previously had no need to intelligently optimize wireless technologies."