Demand for mobile phone services would also vary throughout the city each day, depending on which of the 35 competition events were in action. Telstra needed technology that would provide near real-time information on cell traffic so it could adjust its mobile cell management system to meet demands. We needed to adapt to those needs by seeing how the network was performing in real time. In designing the network, Telstra implemented the capability to move capacity from one part of the network to another, depending on where the customers were making calls. This meant Telstra needed to find a tool that would allow them to measure the performance of the network in near real time.
Cellular networks require many radio transmission cells to provide service.
At the Olympic Park, Telstra implemented over 200 cells within an area of about five square miles. The Compudigm-Sybase solution gave us the capability to view the entire network at Olympic Park on one screen and identify hot spots in near real time. That allowed us to adjust the network to meet our customer's needs. IQ Multiplex gathered not just huge amounts of data from the 200-plus cells throughout Sydney Olympic Park, but also collected that information in real time. The Telstra solution demanded this while also being subjected to high volume real-time updates.