Rain and multipath on every link
ITU-R P.530-19 rain and multipath fading, with P.837 rainfall rates, along terrain-accurate path profiles.
Digital twin · Where we're headed
A link budget tells you a design should work. A digital twin will let you watch it work: real traffic running across it, rain and fading moving through it, until you know it meets its requirements before anyone mobilises to site.
How it would work
The sites, links, cable runs and equipment from a design you already have in the tools, laid out on the land they will stand on.
The twin runs the design: real traffic across every link and through every metre of cable, loaded the way the operation will load it.
A rain cell crosses the microwave path. The twin follows the fade as it deepens, the link stepping its rate down to stay up, then back as the rain clears.
The load peaks at shift change just as a repeater drops out. The twin shows where the traffic goes, and whether the network holds.
Leaky feeder coverage through the decline. As a new heading is driven past the end of the cable, the twin finds the dead spot before anyone works in it.
Coverage, capacity and availability, each checked against its requirement, so the trip to site is to build a design already known to work.
An illustration of where the twin is headed: made-up sites and land, no real places or figures.
Where we are
This is not starting from scratch. The models a twin needs already run in the tools, one calculation at a time. The twin is the step that runs them together, in motion.
ITU-R P.530-19 rain and multipath fading, with P.837 rainfall rates, along terrain-accurate path profiles.
ITU-R P.1812 propagation over the terrain between each site and every point around it.
Coupling and longitudinal loss along every metre of radiating cable, through the tunnels and declines.
Second, third and fifth order intermodulation across a carrier set, and coordination against the licence register.
Offered traffic built from talkgroups and fleets, and the channels it takes to carry it.
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Where we're headed
It comes after the engine that already runs, and the congestion forecasting that comes next.
The tools, frequency assignment and the engine, all working from the same register.
Reading the register's history, the channel plans and where each band is heading, to show which bands are filling up and advise what spectrum to license before it runs short.
Stand up a design, run real traffic across it and stress it against weather, fading and interference, so it is proven to meet its requirements before anyone mobilises to site.
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