A single solution to design Private LTE & 5G and Wi-Fi networks you can rely on.

iBWAVE
PRIVATE NETWORKS

(Private LTE/5G and Wi‑Fi)

A SINGLE SOLUTION TO DESIGN PRIVATE LTE & 5G AND WI‑FI NETWORKS YOU CAN RELY ON.

With cloud-connectivity, seamless integration to iBwave Mobile Survey for surveys, advanced 3D modeling, a powerful prediction engine focused on delivering design accuracy even in complex venues, and a large database of vendor-modeled network parts, iBwave Private Networks is the simplest and most reliable solution to plan, design and deliver high-performance Private LTE & 5G and Wi‑Fi networks.

This software comes with either Wi‑Fi only solution or as a Private LTE & 5G and Wi‑Fi solution to give you complete flexibility.

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iBwave Private Networks

Multi-radio feature!

In today’s high density Wi‑Fi environments, airtime is a precious commodity that is best served by the abundance of available channels in 5 GHz. Access points with dual 5 GHz radios are best suited to meet airtime and capacity needs. A software selectable radio also offers the benefit of 2.4 GHz connectivity when needed. iBwave’s multi-radio feature assists any WLAN professional with dual 5 GHz WLAN designs in addition to legacy 2.4/5GHz WLANs designs.
David Coleman
CWNE #4

The most advanced solution!

From a vendor neutral perspective, probably iBwave Private Networks (Wi-Fi) is the most advanced solution in the market. With full support to integrate Wi‑Fi APs with detailed backhaul cabling, network infrastructures and budgeting, 3D venue modeling and network visualizations, the most advanced RF calculations for prediction accuracy, and cloud integration to simplify the interaction between Wi‑Fi architects, project managers and site surveyors.
Ronald Van Kleunen
CWNE #108, CEO, Globeron

What can iBwave Private Networks (Private LTE/5G and Wi‑Fi Solution) do for you?

Flexible licensing. Choose Wi‑Fi only or Private LTE & 5G + Wi‑Fi
Advanced 3D modeling & network design simulation
Unparalleled design accuracy to ensure reliable connectivity
Full reporting & digitization of site documentation
Seamless integration to survey app and cloud-based site management

Flexible licensing. Choose Wi‑Fi only or Private LTE & 5G + Wi‑Fi

iBwave Private Networks licensing is flexible to cater to your business and license needs. When you purchase you can choose if you want to start with the base solution of just the Wi‑Fi design or the full Private Networks with Wi‑Fi solution. You can also choose the best licensing model for your business.
  • Private Networks (with Wi‑Fi) Solution. A full Private Networks solution that includes Wi‑Fi to give you the full network design solution. Bands include: n48 – 3.5Ghz for CBRS and Private LTE & 5G bands for Europe, APAC and Latin America.
    • Subscription: 3 or 12 months
    • Single or Unlimited Users Options
  • Subscription Licenses. Licensing is offered via a 3‑month or 12‑month subscription for a single user.
  • Floating Licenses. Floating licenses enable you to share one license amongst a team of users.
iBwave Private Networks Flexible Licensing
iBwave Private Networks for Wi-Fi & CBRS: Collaborate easier via the cloud

Advanced 3D modeling & network design simulation

Model your venues and environments in full 3D and then run accurate simulation of how your wireless networks will perform in real-life.
  • Simplify Wi‑Fi Design with our ‘Basic’ and ‘Advanced’ Modes. The ‘Basic’ mode offers the most common features for designing Wi‑Fi networks, so you can work faster and simpler. You still have the option to switch between the modes and choose the one that suits you the best.
  • Advanced 3D Modeling. Import floor plans in AutoCAD, PDF or any image file to model your buildings in a CAD-powered modeling engine. Draw walls, floors, horizontal, circular and inclined surfaces. Assign materials from an extensive database of materials – or add your own material. View the model in a powerful 3D viewer and watch it come to life.
  • View prediction and design details in 3D. View prediction and the placement of your network components and cabling from floor-tofloor throughout the venue. Use the 3D viewer to visually show your customer exactly what the network will look like and how it will perform once it is implemented.
  • Adjust 3D view layers. In the 3D modeler, you can adjust all planes of your design (x,y,z) to view your building as a whole or floor by floor. You can also adjust visible layers to choose what you are looking at: cabling, APs, network equipment, prediction). Zoom in, walk through and pan your design and export an image to include in reports or send to your customer.
  • Share in 3D with your customers. Share the free ‘iBwave Viewer’ with your customers so they can open the design file and view it themselves in 3D.
  • Cloud connectivity. Save your projects to the cloud so you and your team can access your projects from anywhere, anytime.
  • Seamless connectivity with iBwave Private Networks. Work on your designs from either your tablet or PC knowing your files will always be accessible from both.
  • Share projects with your customers with iBwave Viewer. Send your design to your customers for review via a secure link so they can open it up in iBwave Viewer and provide you with feedback.

Unparalleled design accuracy to ensure reliable connectivity

Recognized across the industry for design accuracy, iBwave Private Networks has powerful features built in to ensure that network you install and deploy will perform exactly as predicted in the software.
  • Fast Ray Tracing Prediction Engine. The fast ray tracing prediction engine goes beyond Free-space path loss and is the most accurate in the industry. It considers reflection, diffraction, walls, horizontal surfaces and inclined surfaces when it simulates how the network will perform within the 3D modeled environment.
  • Prediction Calibration. Calibrate prediction with your survey measurements to increase the accuracy of the network’s predicted performance. Calibrate all coefficients or just material coefficients, and then save the model to apply to similar environments in future projects.
  • Inclined Surface Modeling. The more accurate you can model, the more accurate prediction will be – especially with inclined surfaces. Ensure accuracy with the ability to model inclined surfaces the prediction engine will take into account when simulating performance.
  • Attenuation by Frequency. All materials used for modeling in iBwave have attentuation loss defined for each band. Meaning attenuation is different for Wi‑Fi 2.4Ghz, to Wi‑Fi 5Ghz, to CBRS, Private LTE & 5G and bands for Europe, APAC and Latin America, etc. Small differences in attenuation values can make a big difference in performance results.
iBwave Private Networks for Wi-Fi & CBRS: Design detailed networks in advanced 3D with prediction
iBwave Private Networks for Wi-Fi & CBRS: Increase design accuracy by simulating the Wi-Fi network's performance in 3D

Full reporting & digitization of site documentation

Quickly generate key project reports to distribute to your internal and external stakeholders.
  • Automatic Equipment List (BOM) & Cost Details
  • Prediction vs. Measured Data (for Calibrated designs)
  • Access Points, Cable Routing & Cross-reference
  • Annotations, Survey Data
  • Output Maps (See ‘Feature Set’ below for full list)
  • Electromagnetic Field (EMF)
  • Compliance
  • Survey Analysis. View KPIs, interpolate survey data, validate
    compliance criteria and filter survey data
  • iBwave Viewer. This free software lets your customers open design
    files (read-only), view the design and prediction in 3D and run their
    own project reports anytime they want.

Seamless integration to survey app and cloud-based site management

  • Integration to iBwave Mobile Survey. Perform your Wi‑Fi and/or LTE surveys from iBwave Mobile Survey and then seamlessly access the survey data, notes and documentation from within the iBwave Private Network software. Analyze the data, filter by criteria and incorporate the insights into your designs.
  • Integration to iBwave Unity. Gain total oversight into all your wireless sites by connecting iBwave Private Networks to our cloud-based collaboration platform iBwave Unity. Manage all sites from a single location, run reports across all sites, and digitize all documentation in one place to easily access for future maintenance or upgrade initiatives.

iBwave Viewer. This free software lets your customers open design files (readonly), view the design and prediction in 3D and run their own project reports anytime they want.

iBwave Private Networks for Wi-Fi & CBRS: Quickly generate key project reports

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We offer a full list of services such as building and environment modeling, creation and certification of components, and legacy project design conversion to the iBwave format.

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What's new

iBwave Private Networks (LTE/5G & Wi-Fi)

Multi-Carrier Small Cell Templates

iBwave Private Networks LTE/5G + Wi-Fi

In this release, you can significantly simplify configuring Multi-Carrier Small Cell Signal Sources with much-improved user experience through new Multi-Carrier Templates. This feature builds on the previously introduced Multi-Carrier Signal Sources that support flexible system, band and bandwidth allocation in a single signal source component (MO-RAN Deployment).

Now, with Multi-Carrier Templates, you can automatically:

iBwave Private Networks LTE/5G + Wi-Fi
  • Select systems to deploy Wireless Services in the projects
  • Configure system properties from the source properties grid
  • Connect to DAS or use existing antennas
  • Set Power/channel with desired power share per carrier
  • Define port associations for all systems and MIMO paths
  • And more!

You can save these templates with all configurations and reuse them across projects, including creating templates with OEM specifications, saving you time and effort on your projects.

Technical requirements

iBwave Private Networks (Private LTE/5G & Wi-Fi)

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

1. INTRODUCTION

Smooth and rapid operation of iBwave Private Networks is highly dependent on Boost Clock Speed of the processor, the number of cores, and the amount of RAM in the system. For highly complex designs involving a large surface area, high number of transmitters, and number of wireless services, the Recommended specifications listed in this document are meant to provide the best experience for users attempting to build accurate designs through rapid iterations of designing and predicting the system.

2. RECOMMENDED SPECIFICATIONS

The following table describes the minimum and recommended specifications of iBwave Private Networks. A Recommended system is one that can reliably execute complex designs over large venues with numerous transmitters and large square footage.

Recommended Specifications will offer the highest performance while offering similar results in terms of execution time for a single user.

Desktop Minimum Recommended
Laptop (Mobile CPUs) Desktop Cloud
Processor Intel Core i5 AMD Ryzen 5 Intel Core i7 AMD Ryzen 7 Intel Core i9 AMD Ryzen 9 Intel XEON Platinum AMD EPYC 9xx4
CPU Clock Speed 4+ GHz Boost Clock 4+ GHz Boost Clock 5+ GHz Boost Clock 3.40 GHz
Core 6+ Performance Cores 6+ Performance Cores 8+ Performance Cores 128 Cores
Operating System Win 10 Pro, 64 bits, x64- base processor Win 10 Pro, 64 bits, x64- base processor Win 11 Pro, 64 bits, x64- base processor Windows Server 2022
RAM 16 GB DDR4/DDR5 16 GB DDR4/DDR5 128 GB DDR5 256 GB
Storage 1TB NVME 1TB NVME 2TB NVME 2TB+
Performance (Stadium – Signal Strength) 2h 30m 3h 24m 1h 13m 1h 01m

 

2.1 GPU-ACCELERATED SPECIFICATIONS

When coupled with GPU acceleration using supported CUDA® operations on Nvidia® devices, there is a marked reduction in prediction times on these systems. The base computation for every prediction map is the creation of Signal Strength matrices describing the power at each point of a prediction map. Utilizing the GPU for these computations can result in further performance gains relative to the system used.

Note: CUDA GPU Acceleration is available starting in Release 22 of iBwave Private Networks for all packages of iBwave Private Networks.

Laptop Desktop Cloud
System As Recommended As Recommended As Recommended
NVIDIA Video Card RTX 4070 (Mobile) RTX 4090 A100
GPU-Accelerated Prediction Time 1h 43m 28m 29m

 

CERTIFIED NVIDIA® DEVICES:

Devices that comply with a minimum of CUDA® Compute Level of 6.1 will be capable of running GPU-accelerated predictions (see the following table - https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus). Of these devices only the following devices have been internally tested for use with CUDA® Accelerated predictions:

  • Nvidia 4xxx-Series of devices
  • Nvidia A40 / A100 Cloud devices

Wi-Fi ADAPTERS

All Wi-Fi adapters are supported

Advanced Support
The following adapters include support for channel filtering and custom scan rate:

  • Netgear A6200
  • D-Link DWA-182 Revision A1
  • Asus USB-AC53
  • Buffalo AC866 N300
  • Belkin F9L1106az v1
  • BT 11ac Dual Band 900
  • AirPcap Nx: USB 802.11a/b/g/n

Wi-Fi ADAPTERS

All Wi-Fi adapters are supported

Advanced Support
The following adapters include support for channel filtering and custom scan rate:

  • Netgear A6200
  • D-Link DWA-182 Revision A1
  • Asus USB-AC53
  • Buffalo AC866 N300
  • Belkin F9L1106az v1
  • BT 11ac Dual Band 900
  • AirPcap Nx: USB 802.11a/b/g/n

* iBwave Private Networks (Private LTE/5G & Wi-Fi) does not allow the usage of multiple simultaneous Terminal Server sessions.

* iBwave Private Networks (Private LTE/5G & Wi-Fi) will not run under multiple simultaneous Terminal Servers.