Radio Planning with Odyssey™

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• Duration
• Format
• Audience
• Course Objectives
• Prerequisites
• Course Contents
• Course Aims
• Topics Not Covered

Duration
This course has been designed so that all the material can be covered within 1 day. The course begins at 9:00 AM and ends at 5:00 PM with one hour for lunch.

Course Format
Instructor led, featuring demonstration of Odyssey.  Each student is assigned a workstation and given personal training materials to be kept for reference after completion of the course.

Audience
The course is aimed towards RF Engineer Managers or non-technical staff who need to know about the product, but are unlikely to use it.

Course Objectives
To familiarize the student with the current functionality within Odyssey.

Prerequisites
Familiarity with Windows is essential, basic radio planning knowledge is a plus.

Course Contents
The Odyssey Overview Course will include topics such as:

• Propagation Tools - Odyssey
• Launching Odyssey
• Displaying Data
• Hexagon Planner, Creating Sites
• Design Configuration
• Reporting and Printing

Course Aims
By the end of the course, the student will have an understanding of:

• The Purpose of Odyssey
• Launching Odyssey
• Displaying Data within Odyssey
• Creating Sites within Odyssey
• Design Configuration
• Reporting and Printing within Odyssey (Exercise)
• Coming New Releases and New Functionality

Topics not covered
It is not the intention of this course to cover the theoretical principles of cellular radio planning. It is not a user course so the topics are not covered in depth and there are no exercises to reinforce the material learned during instruction.

Odyssey™ User Course

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• Prerequisites
• Course Contents
• Course Aims
• Topics Not Covered

Duration
This course has been designed so that all the material should be covered within 3 days. The course begins at 9:00 AM and ends at 5:00 PM with 1 hour for lunch.

Course Format
Instructor led, featuring a mixture of demonstration and hands-on practical exercises.  Each student is assigned a workstation and given personal training materials to be kept for reference after completion of the course.

Audience
The course is aimed towards RF Engineers working in a wireless environment.

Course Objectives
To familiarize the student with the functionality of Odyssey as well as to give an appreciation of the planning tools available within Odyssey.

Prerequisites
Basic radio planning knowledge is required; familiarity with Windows is essential.

Course Contents
The Odyssey User Course will include topics such as:

Practical exercises on each subject with the focus on customer specific tasks.

Course Aims
By the end of the course, the student will have a thorough understanding of:

• Launching Odyssey and loading desired Map View
• Loading a Session with previous Design information and user specific preferences
• Using the On Line Documentation
• Creating sites from scratch or through the use of a template
• Editing single and multiple BTS configurations
• Calculating and display coverage and interference for sites
• Activating sites using status flags and storing sites in user defined Site Groups
• Generating Statistical Reports and preparing customized Plots

Topics not covered
It is not the intention of this course to cover the theoretical principles of cellular radio planning. It is assumed that the student will have knowledge of these principles already.

Odyssey™ Enhancements Course

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• Duration
• Format
• Audience
• Course Objectives
• Prerequisites
• Course Contents
• Course Aims
• Topics Not Covered

Duration
This course has been designed so that all the material can be covered within 1 day. The course begins at 9:00 AM and ends at 5:00 PM with one hour for lunch.

Course Format
Instructor led, featuring a mixture of demonstration and hands-on practical exercises.  Each student is assigned a workstation and given personal training materials to be kept for reference after completion of the course.

Audience
The course is aimed towards advanced Odyssey Users.

Course Objectives
To familiarize the student with the new functionality in the major releases of Odyssey.

Prerequisites
Odyssey User Course required, Basic Radio planning knowledge required, familiarity with computing systems essential.

Course Contents
The Odyssey Enhancements Course will include topics such as:

• Odyssey Release Notes
• New features presented
• User Settings / Configurations for new features
• Exercises on new features

Course Aims
By the end of the course, the student will have an understanding of:

• Modifications to Odyssey core in the new Release
• Using the new functionality within Odyssey

Topics not covered
It is not the intention of this course to cover the theoretical principles of cellular radio planning. It is not a DBA course so the functionality covered is from a user’s perspective. This course does not spend any time on required administration tasks of the Odyssey Database or the Odyssey Database Structure.

Odyssey™ Options Course

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• Prerequisites
• Course Contents
• Course Aims
• Topics Not Covered

Duration
The length of this course is dependent on the number of subjects selected. The course begins at 9:00 AM and ends at 5:00 PM each day with 1 hour for Lunch.

Course Format
Instructor led, featuring a mixture of demonstration and hands-on practical exercises.  Each student is assigned a workstation and given personal training materials to be kept for reference after completion of the course.

Audience
The course is aimed towards Radio Engineers working in a wireless environment.

Course Objectives
To familiarize the student with the additional Odyssey options and give a further appreciation of the tools available within Odyssey.

Prerequisites
Odyssey User Course required, Basic Radio planning knowledge required, familiarity with computing systems essential.

Course Contents
The Odyssey Options Course will include available options topics such as:

• Traditional Traffic Planning
• Odyssey Survey Analysis
• Odyssey Test Mobile Analysis
• Intertechnology Neighbor Planning
• Frequency Planning
• Code Planning

Course Aims
By the end of the course, dependant on options selected the student will have a thorough understanding of:

• Traditional Traffic Planning:
  • Concepts of Traffic within Odyssey
  • Creating, Editing, and Saving Traffic Raster Data
  • Capturing and Analyzing Traffic Per BTS
  • Importing/Scaling/Displaying Traffic Information into Odyssey
• Odyssey Survey Analysis:
  • Creating of propagation models within Odyssey
  • Importing Survey Site configuration into Odyssey
  • Associating Survey Drives to Bass within Odyssey
  • Loading and Displaying Survey Information in the Main Display
  • Generating statistical reports from Survey Analysis
• Odyssey Test Mobile Analysis:
• Importing Test Mobile Data
• Configuration of Settings for Test Mobile data
• Loading and Displaying Test Mobile Information in the Main Display
• Analyzing Test Mobile information within Odyssey
• Intertechnology Neighbor planning:
• User settings
• Creating plans
• Viewing neighbors
• Editing neighbors
• Comparing plans
• Merging plans
• Saving plans
• Frequency Planning:
• Manual assignments
• User constraints
• Creating automatic plans
• Viewing assignments
• Saving plans
• Exporting plans
• Code Planning:
• Manual assignments
• User constraints
• Creating automatic plans
• Viewing assignments
• Saving plans

Topics not covered
It is not the intention of this course to cover the theoretical principles of cellular radio planning. It is assumed that the student will have knowledge of these principles already.

Odyssey™ DBA Course

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• Format
• Audience
• Course Objectives
• Prerequisites
• Course Contents
• Course Aims
• Topics Not Covered

Duration
This course has been designed so that all the material should be covered within 2 days. The course begins at 9:00 AM and ends at 5:00 PM with 1 hour for lunch.

Course Format
Instructor led, featuring a mixture of demonstration and hands-on practical exercises.  Each student is assigned a workstation and given personal training materials to be kept for reference after completion of the course.

Audience
The course is aimed towards Application and System administration staff that will manage the application and/or the network environment.

Course Objectives
To familiarize the student with a typical Odyssey Network configuration and the Odyssey DBA application.

Prerequisites
Sound UNIX or Windows computing knowledge recommended.

Course Contents

• System Overview:
  • Odyssey Hardware Requirements/Recommendations
  • Solaris/Windows Installation, (example)
  • Useful commands/scripts
  • Adding Users                     
  • System Overview Exercises
• Odyssey Installation:
• Pre-Installation Requirements
• Directory structure for Odyssey
• Odyssey configuration and installation
• Licensing
• DCE and the Odyssey Supervisor
• Setting up New Map Data
• Creating New Map Areas / Map Views (Projects)
• Installation Exercises
• Upgrading Odyssey
• Odyssey DBA Tool:
• Adding new Odyssey Users
• Frequency band definitions
• Site/cell status flags
• Technology layers editor
• Matrix definition editor
• Hierarchy definitions editor
• Equipment definitions editor
• DBA exercises
• Odyssey DBA Miscellaneous Topics:
• Import/Export Utilities
• Site Icons, editing/creating
• Map Layer Definitions (population)
• Common Problems
• Miscellaneous Topics Exercises

Course Aims
By the end of the course, the student will have a thorough understanding of installing and maintaining Odyssey in the related OS environment:

Topics not covered
It is not the intention of this course to cover any theoretical principles of cellular radio planning.

Artemis Programming for Odyssey™ Course

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• Duration
• Format
• Audience
• Course Objectives
• Prerequisites
• Course Contents
• Course Aims
• Topics Not Covered

Duration
This course has been designed so that all the material should be covered within 2 days. The course begins at 9:00 AM and ends at 5:00 PM with 1 hour for lunch.

Course Format
Instructor led, featuring a mixture of demonstration and hands-on practical exercises.  Each student is assigned a workstation and given personal training materials to be kept for reference after completion of the course.

Audience
The course is designed for System Administration staff that is required to create and update different equipment types within Odyssey.

Course Objectives
To familiarize the student with the Artemis Programming Language as it is used within Odyssey for equipment definitions.

Prerequisites
Odyssey DBA Course is a plus; Familiarity with Odyssey and the Odyssey network Basic radio planning knowledge required; familiarity with computing systems essential and previous programming experience is a plus.

Course Contents

• The External Database Feature
• Importing and Exporting data, review
• Your Required Cell Parameters
• Artemis Introduction
• Creating graphical user interfaces
• Calculations of field values
• Rules
• Artemis Attributes
• Neighbors lists
• Artemis syntax
• Exercises

Course Aims
By the end of the course, the student will have a thorough understanding of:

• The Artemis programming language
• Creating new equipment types
• Importing and exporting equipment information from Odyssey
• The Import / Export tool and how it relates to Odyssey
• Practical exercises on each subject with the focus on customer specific tasks

Topics not covered
It is not the intention of this course to cover the theoretical principles of cellular radio planning. It is not a DBA course, so the material covered is focused on defining new or modifying existing equipment types.

MbP™ Course

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• Duration
• Format
• Audience
• Course Objectives
• Prerequisites
• Course Contents
• Course Aims
• Topics Not Covered

Duration
This course has been designed so that all the material should be covered within 1 day. The course begins at 9:00 AM and ends at 5:00 PM with 1 hour for lunch.

Course Format
Instructor led, featuring a mixture of demonstration and hands-on practical exercises.  Each student is assigned a workstation and given personal training materials to be kept for reference after completion of the course.

Audience
The course is aimed towards Radio Engineers working in a wireless environment.

Course Objectives
To familiarize the student with the configuration and functionality of MbP.

Prerequisites
Odyssey™ User Course required, Basic Radio planning knowledge required, familiarity with computing systems essential.

Course Contents

• Creating the MbP propagation model
• Assigning the MbP model to cells
• Survey formats
• Assigning surveys to cells
• Creating MbP header information
• MbP pathloss prediction and coverage calculation

Course Aims
By the end of the course, the student will have a thorough understanding of:

• Configuring the MbP Model
• Configuring the MbP cells
• MbP survey data, and how it is associated with the cells
• MbP calculation process

Topics not covered
It is not the intention of this course to cover the theoretical principles of cellular radio planning.  It is not a DBA course, so the material covered is focused on defining new or modifying existing equipment types.

Optimizing with Optum™

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• Format
• Audience
• Course Objectives
• Prerequisites
• Course Contents
• Course Aims
• Topics Not Covered

Duration
This course has been designed so that all the material should be covered within 2 days. The course begins at 9:00 AM and ends at 5:00 PM with 1 hour for lunch.

Course Format
Instructor led, featuring a mixture of demonstration and hands-on practical exercises.  Each student is assigned a workstation and given personal training materials to be kept for reference after completion of the course.

Audience
The course is aimed towards Radio Engineers working in a wireless environment.

Course Objectives
To familiarize the student with optimization benefits and the functionality of Optum.

Prerequisites
Odyssey™ User Course required, Basic Radio planning knowledge required, familiarity with computing systems essential.

Course Contents
Overview of benefits and features:

• Optimization Basics (TDMA/CDMA)
• Installation and setup
• Data preparation and launch
• Project specification
• Optimization ranges
• Optimization targets
• Optimization options
• Run and Progress
• Results and verification

Course Aims
By the end of the course, the student will have a thorough understanding of:

• Optimization benefits, and features
• Identifying areas for optimization
• Optimization parameters and trade-offs
• Optimization ranges, target, options
• Running optimizations, and verification of the result

Topics not covered
It is not the intention of this course to cover the theoretical principles of cellular radio planning.  It is not a DBA course, so the material covered is focused on defining new or modifying existing equipment types.

Omnix™ Platform Overview Course

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• Duration
• Format
• Audience
• Course Objectives
• Prerequisites
• Course Contents
• Course Aims

Duration
This course has been designed so that all the material should be covered within 1 day. The course begins at 9:00 AM and ends at 5:00 PM, with a 1 hour break for lunch.

Course Format
Instructor led, featuring a mixture of demonstration and hands-on practical use. Each student is assigned a workstation and given personal training materials to be kept for reference after completion of the course.

Audience
The course is aimed towards Omnix users responsible for maintaining and using the Omnix on a daily basis.

Course Objectives
To familiarize the student with the functionality of the Omnix Platform.

Prerequisites
Familiarity with Windows is essential.

Course Contents
The Omnix Platform Overview Course will include topics such as:

Course Aims
By the end of the course, the student will have a thorough understanding of:

• The main functions of the Omnix Platform and how they interact
• How to create new data items and search for existing data items
• How to create relationships between data items
• How to add notes, images, and files
• How plans and queues are used in Workflow
• Viewing and assigning actions
• Starting and completing actions
• How to use forecasting and re-forecasting

Omnix™ Site Rollout & Upgrade Course

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• Duration
• Format
• Audience
• Course Objectives
• Prerequisites
• Course Contents
• Course Aims

Duration
This course has been designed so that all the material should be covered within 1 day. The course begins at 9:00 AM and ends at 5:00 PM, with a 1 hour break for lunch.

Course Format
Instructor led, featuring a mixture of demonstration and hands-on practical use. Each student is assigned a workstation and given personal training materials to be kept for reference after completion of the course.

Audience
The course is aimed towards Omnix users responsible for maintaining and using the Omnix Site Rollout & Upgrade module on a daily basis.

Course Objectives
To familiarize the student with the functionality of the Omnix Site Rollout & Upgrade module.

Prerequisites
Students are expected to be fully aware of the standard functionality of the Omnix platform and should have ideally attended the Omnix Platform Overview course. Familiarity with Windows is essential.

Course Contents
The Site Rollout & Upgrade Course will include the following topics:

Course Aims
By the end of the course, the student will have a thorough understanding of:

• The SRU process and concepts
• Required reference data
• Project lifecycle
• Implementation and Fulfillment Options
• Bills of Work
• Bill of Materials
• Agreements

Omnix™ Asset Management Course

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• Duration
• Format
• Audience
• Course Objectives
• Prerequisites
• Course Contents
• Course Aims

Duration
This course has been designed so that all the material should be covered within 1 day. The course begins at 9:00 AM and ends at 5:00 PM. with 1 hour for lunch.

Course Format
Instructor led, featuring a mixture of demonstration and hands-on practical exercises.  Each student is assigned a workstation and given personal training materials to be kept for reference after completion of the course.

Audience
The course is aimed towards Omnix users responsible for maintaining and using the Omnix Asset Management module on a daily basis.

Course Objectives
To familiarize the student with the functionality of the Omnix Asset Management module.

Prerequisites
Students are expected to be fully aware of the standard functionality of the Omnix platform and should have ideally attended the Omnix Platform Overview course. Familiarity with Windows is essential.

Course Contents
The Omnix Asset Management Course will include the following topics:

Course Aims
By the end of the course, the student will have a thorough understanding of:

• Asset Management process
• Required reference data
• Bills of materials
• Fulfillment plans
• Purchase requests
• Reservation requests
• Receiving goods
• Site auditing and reporting
• Equipment management

Omnix™ Mobile Device Course

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• Duration
• Format
• Audience
• Course Objectives
• Prerequisites
• Course Contents
• Course Aims

Duration
This course has been designed so that all the material should be covered within 1 day. The course begins at 9:00 AM and ends at 5:00 PM, with a 1 hour break for lunch.

Course Format
Instructor led, featuring a mixture of demonstration and hands-on practical use. Each student is assigned a workstation and given personal training materials to be kept for reference after completion of the course.

Audience
The course is aimed towards Omnix users responsible for inventory management tasks on a day-to-day basis.

Course Objectives
To familiarize the student with the functionality of the Omnix Mobile Client.

Prerequisites
Students are expected to be fully aware of the basic functionality of Omnix and should have ideally attended the Omnix Platform Overview course. Familiarity with Windows is essential.

Course Contents
The Omnix Mobile Client Course will include the following topics:

Course Aims
By the end of the course, the student will have a thorough understanding of:

• Mobile device tasks and prerequisites
• How to setup a device
• Downloading/uploading tasks
• Picklists
• Work orders
• GRN’s
• Site auditing and reporting

Omnix™ Report Configuration Course

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• Duration
• Format
• Audience
• Course Objectives
• Prerequisites
• Course Contents
• Course Aims

Duration
This course has been designed so that all the material should be covered within 1 day. The course begins at 9:00 AM and ends at 5:00 PM, with a 1 hour break for lunch.

Course Format
Instructor led, featuring a mixture of demonstration and hands-on practical use. Each student is assigned a workstation and given personal training materials to be kept for reference after completion of the course.

Audience
This course is aimed at Omnix administrators and key users, responsible for design and configuration of Omnix reports.

Course Objectives
To familiarize the student with the functionality of the Omnix Report builder.

Prerequisites
Students are expected to be fully aware of the basic functionality of Omnix and should have ideally attended the Omnix Platform Overview course. Familiarity with Windows is essential.

Course Contents
The Omnix Report Configuration Course will include the following topics: