iBwave Design Lite: Small to Medium Project In-Building Wireless Network Design

iBWAVE
DESIGN LITE

THE EASY TO USE NETWORK DESIGN TOOL FOR DESIGNING IN-BUILDING WIRELESS NETWORKS.

Created specifically for small to medium size projects, iBwave Design Lite is the most affordable way to simplify and accelerate your in-building wireless network design process. With dynamically calculated RF calculations, automatic Bill of Materials, on-screen error validation, 3D prediction capabilities and KPI compliance checks, iBwave Design Lite eliminates the manual steps of designing wireless networks so you can focus on the most important part – delivering high-quality networks that will impress your customers, win you more projects and grow your revenues.

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What can iBwave Design Lite do for you?

Reduce network design time
Improve network quality
Reduce capital expenditure
Quickly generate reports
Collaborate on designs more easily

Reduce small project network design time

Automate the manual work of designing in-building wireless networks and save an estimated 30% or more off your design time.
  • Passive DAS and small cells
  • Dynamically calculated RF calculations
  • Automatic cable length measurements
  • Automatically generated accurate Bill of Materials
  • Over 40,000 network components to design with
iBwave Design Lite: Reduce network design time
iBwave Design Lite: Improve network quality

Improve network quality

Use the optional propagation module to ensure the quality of your network. Model the building on top of your floor plan and run propagation to predict the signal strength of your design on each floor.
  • Import walls from raster CAD files, PDF or images
  • Assign materials from materials database
  • Simultaneous multi-band propagation 3D prediction analysis
  • VPLE propagation model using environment density zones
  • COST 231 Multi Wall propagation model
  • Compliancy results based on user defined criteria
  • Customizable output map legends

Reduce capital expenditure

Over designing a network can be expensive. With iBwave Design Lite you can eliminate this risk by modeling your venue in detailed 3D and then simulating your network before it’s deployed to optimize hardware placement for the most cost-efficient design.
  • Venue modeling and 3D viewer
  • Automatic error-checking
  • On screen debug list
  • Network simulation
iBwave Design Lite: Reduce capital expenditure
iBwave Design Lite: Quickly generate reports

Quickly generate reports

Once your design is complete you can quickly generate your link budget, equipment lists and compliancy reports to ensure alignment with your customer’s network requirements and close out your project quickly.
  • Annotations report
  • Output maps
  • RF Survey
  • Equipment list
  • Link budget

Collaborate on projects more easier

Designing a network can be a big job with many different stakeholders involved. With iBwave Design Lite, you can easily collaborate with your customers, and your other team members with iBwave Viewer and seamless integration to iBwave Mobile and Unity.
iBwave Design Lite: Collaborate on projects easier

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Automatically generate closeout packages and populate reports with smart, actionable data.

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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.

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What's new

iBwave Design Lite

Multi-Carrier Small Cell Signal Sources

  • In the latest release, we've introduced support for OEM multi-carrier, multi-technology small cell signal sources. With these flexible signal sources, you can simplify your work and save time by deploying multiple services (technologies, bands, blocks, and channels) for multiple operators in a single OEM small cell signal source.

Technical requirements

iBwave Design Lite

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

1. INTRODUCTION

Smooth and rapid operation of iBwave Design 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 Design. 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) 2h30m 3h24m 1h13m 1h01m

 

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 Design for all packages of iBwave Design.

Laptop Desktop Cloud
System As Recommended As Recommended As Recommended
NVIDIA Video Card RTX 4070 (Mobile) RTX 4090 A100
GPU-Accelerated Prediction Time 1h43m 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

* iBwave Design Lite does not allow the usage of multiple simultaneous Terminal Server sessions.

* iBwave Design Lite will not run under multiple simultaneous Terminal Servers

* iBwave Design Lite product line is not supported on virtual environments.