Patent ID: 7295960
Filing Date: 2007-11-13
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system for modeling or controlling a communications network, comprising: a display for displaying a site map of a site in which a communications network is or will be deployed; means for configuring a computer representation on said site map on said display a possible configuration of a communications network which includes a plurality of components which are or may be used in the communications network, one or more of said plurality of components having at least one of performance data, cost data, maintenance data, and equipments settings stored in a database; means for establishing one or more parameters of a desirable configuration of said communications network; means for changing at least one of a) one or more components within said configuration of said communications network, and b) equipment settings of one or more components within said configuration of said communications network; means for determining predicted or measured parameters for said communications network within said site generated by said means for configuring and said means for changing; and means for determining one or more optimized or preferred configurations of said communications network based on a comparison of predicted or measured parameters generated by said means for determining and said one or more parameters of said desirable configuration established by said means for establishing.