iBwave Public Safety: Wireless Network Design & Planning Software

iBWAVE
PUBLIC SAFETY

PLAN, DESIGN AND PROPOSE PUBLIC SAFETY NETWORKS THAT BUILDING OWNERS AND AHJS WILL APPROVE.

iBwave’s Public Safety solution is the established standard to design reliable Public Safety networks with proper documentation while saving time and costs. Our software makes it easy to design and simulate network performance for greenfield or existing buildings, and accelerates the approval process with building owners and AHJs by presenting detailed standardized documentation. iBwave has the tools, training and support so you can design Public Safety Networks we all can count on.

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Concise and easy to understand!

A good RF Design should be concise and easy to understand. The more complicated the design, the more likely mistakes can be made by the installers. Finding a solution to a design problem and showing the complete impact of that solution are two different steps. The latter normally takes more time. iBwave gives an enormous amount of simplicity to these types of complex changes.

Javier Herrero, CEO

SmartRF Engineering

Delivered within record budget and timescales!

Without a doubt, iBwave spared us many hours of work. We not only built a network to support the 15,000 people that the stadium can accommodate but we also delivered it within record budget and timescales – within a third of the time when compared with conventional methods.

Peter Liseborg

Senior Net Planner for Telenor Denmark

Increased profitability!

I have been working with RF for 40 years and designing/installing BDA/DAS systems for 12 years prior to my TXRX Applications Engineering position. The algorithms in the iBwave software are excellent. It is a pleasure to work with and is very user-friendly. It would have saved my installation team a lot of time and increased profitability.

Paul Bertram

RF Applications Engineer II, TX RX Systems, Inc

Need to survey Public Safety networks?
Introducing a simple, lightweight and affordable way to survey Public Safety networks.

Seamlessly integrate with Epiq Solutions’ PRiSM™ scanner

Lightweight and low-visibility hand-held device that magnetically attaches to your phone or tablet to survey P25 networks.
Seamless integration to iBwave Mobile Survey for a simplified end-to-end survey and design experience.
Perform grid testing and generate automatic Pass/Fail reports to easily submit to AHJs for approval.

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What can iBwave Public Safety network Design and Planning Software do for you?

A recognized expertise you can count on

Design reliable networks for mission critical applications

Deploy more sites faster and reduce your costs

Standardized network reporting for faster approvals

Integration with 3rd party collection tools

A recognized expertise you can count on

With more than 20 years experience, iBwave’s expertise in all things wireless is unparalleled. Along with industry-standard software, we are recognized for world-class support in 100+ countries, providing the industry’s most comprehensive components database and a well-established certification program with over 3000 certified professionals around the globe.

Design reliable Public Safety networks using Active or Passive DAS on all public safety bands including P25, Tetra and FirstNet
Benefit from the most comprehensive component database on the market with over 37,500 components
We provide world-class training and certification programs to help you get the most out of your software
Unparalleled 24/5 support team with a 95%+ approval rating

iBwave Public Safety: A recognized expertise you can count on

iBwave Public Safety: Design reliable networks for mission critical applications

Design reliable networks for mission critical applications

Test the coverage and throughput of your network before it is deployed using our prediction engine proven and trusted by thousands of customers worldwide. Ensure your network’s availability by simulating traffic in critical and non-critical areas. Validate the performance compliance based on key requirements and prevent costly changes post installation.

Fast Ray Tracing, COST 231 and VPLE (quick design) propagation
Precise 3D coverage output maps (Downlink and Uplink RSSI, RSRP, AGC, Near-Far Effect)
Signal quality and data rate output maps (SNIR, RSRQ, MADR)
Smart Antenna Contouring to show live signal strength predictions
Body loss modeling for highly dense venues (stadium, arena, etc.)
LTE best server & hand-off matrix to optimize existing design for higher data rate
PIM calculations and EMF calculation and analysis
Compliance results based on user defined pass/fail criteria
Donor Antenna isolation validation
Critical/General Zone Identification

Deploy more sites faster and reduce your costs

Automate and simplify the design of your public safety networks to reduce your time to deployment. Eliminate the risk of over designing a network by modeling your venue in detailed 3D and simulating your network before it’s deployed to optimize hardware placement for the most cost-efficient design.

Detailed network diagrams with automated link budget calculations
Coax, CAT5 or Fiber cabling backhaul modeling
Customizable equipment cost and list of approved parts
Network validation and error checking
Automatic error-checking
On screen debug list
Network simulation
Streamlined work with advanced 3D modeling and customizable stencils
Free 3D viewer for your clients to accelerate the approval process

iBwave Public Safety: Deploy more sites faster and reduce your costs

iBwave Public Safety: Standardized reporting for faster approvals

Standardized network reporting for faster approvals

Once your design is complete you can quickly generate your link budget, equipment lists and compliancy reports to ensure performance criterias are met so you can get your project approved quickly.

View network design and performance in advanced 3D
Annotations, Output maps & Survey data reports
Equipment list & Cost Details reports
Link budget and horizontal link budget reports
Antennas report
Cable Routing & Cross-reference report
Version tracking to ensure design consistency across multiple projects
Compliance report

Integration with 3rd party collection tools

iBwave Public Safety integrates will all the major collection tools. This means you will spend less time manually transferring data between tools and more time leveraging RF measurements to deliver the most accurate and optimized designs for your customers.

Import RF measurements from most leading RF collection tool
Consider macro network using a given value, macro planning tool, or survey measurements
Calibrate the prediction model using CW field measurements
Survey measurement and prediction vs. measured reports

iBwave Public Safety: Integration with 3rd party collection tools

3^rd Party Collection Tools	Import survey to iBwave Public Safety using CSV format	Import IBWC files from iBwave Public Safety
Accuver XCAL-Harmony	✅	✅
Accuver XCAL-Mobile	✅	✅
Anritsu MA8100A	✅
Atec Wireless iMeasure	✅
BVS Coyote	✅
ComTel MicroDM	✅
EXFO MobileXplorer	✅
FalconSmart FalconKit	✅	✅
InCode WirelessPro	✅
InfoVista	✅	✅
Keysight Nemo Analyze	✅	✅
Multiple Access Communications CatchAll-SE	✅
Pctel SeeHawk	✅
Rohde & Schwarz Qualipoc	✅	✅
Rohde & Schwarz Romes	✅
STI Field Test 7	✅
TNSS Smart App	✅
TRX Systems NEON Signal Mapper	✅
Verizon DataPRO DM	✅	✅
Verveba Tapas Auto	✅	✅
WirelessMetrix Link Master LML, ML8725A	✅	✅

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Support services

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.

Annual maintenance services

iBwave’s entire product suite is covered by an optional Annual Maintenance Service for full customer support, and access to updates and upgrades on all our products.

Technical requirements

iBwave Public Safety

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

1. INTRODUCTION

Smooth and rapid operation of iBwave Public Safety 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 Public Safety. 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
	Desktop Minimum	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 Public Safety for all packages of iBwave Public Safety.

	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:

Wi-Fi ADAPTERS

All Wi-Fi adapters are supported

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

* iBwave Public Safety does not allow the usage of multiple simultaneous Terminal Server sessions.

* iBwave Public Safety will not run under multiple simultaneous Terminal Servers.

* iBwave Public Safety product line is not supported on virtual environments.