Intermap (TSX:IMP.TO) - Mentum®, the industry’s
leading wireless access and backhaul network planning and optimization
company, and Intermap Technologies Corporation (TSX:IMP.TO) today
announced a collaboration for the delivery of a new generation of
height-attributed land-use geodata that addresses the propagation
modeling needs of the wireless industry. The telecom-grade product,
CityScapes HD, offers an unmatched level of X, Y and Z accuracy at a
price point that enables network operators to manage the large
geographical areas required by today’s wireless networks. CityScapes HD
is offered at a native resolution of 15m and is available immediately in
the USA, Western Europe and parts of Asia.
What is new and different with CityScapes HD compared to existing
products is accurately including the height of vegetation and man-made
structures (clutter) cost-effectively, for a broad geographic region.
Mentum’s years of propagation and cartography research clearly
demonstrate the importance of clutter height in the context of
propagation modeling. CityScapes HD is the culmination of research and
development efforts focused on designing a suitable product for working
with sprawling metropolitan areas where both man-made structures and
vegetation play an important role in defining propagation
characteristics. The new CityScapes HD product is the perfect complement
to Mentum’s CityScapes product, which focuses on nationwide coverage,
and the Skylines product, which focuses on core urban and indoor
modeling. Through its partnership with Intermap, Mentum has produced a
product that is technically superior to any other land-use product
available in the marketplace today.
"With this new geodata product, Mentum can further take advantage of
advanced deterministic propagation models like CRC-Predict and the
Universal Model to deliver very tangible benefits to operators both in
terms of accuracy and reduced operational expenses. The very
deterministic nature of CityScapes HD makes it possible for models to be
more accurate and more reusable, resulting in reduced dependence on
propagation model calibration,” said Bernard Breton, Chief Operating &
Strategy Officer at Mentum. "This product is made possible because it
combines the elevation accuracy of the Intermap NEXTMap product with the
propagation expertise of Mentum. We consider it a breakthrough that will
be nothing short of the reference in the wireless space for the years to
come, similar to our regular CityScapes product, which set the standard
15 years ago.”
"The missing ingredient for wireless carriers looking to optimize their
networks via better predictive modeling has always been access to a true
clutter height value,” said Todd Oseth Intermap president and CEO. "By
combining the highly accurate, sensed elevation values from Intermap’s
telco-optimized NEXTMap™ dataset with Mentum’s expertise in the wireless
propagation modeling space, CityScapes HD solves this problem while also
representing an exciting new opportunity for land-use data. We look
forward to working with the Mentum team as we bring the benefits of this
partnership to wireless operators around the world."
For more information about CityScapes HD, please visit http://www.mentum.com/geodata.
About Mentum
Mentum provides industry-leading software and service solutions that
allow wireless operators, equipment vendors and consultants to
efficiently plan, manage and optimize wireless access as well as
backhaul networks, plan coverage expansions and launch new broadband
wireless networks. Its advanced software solutions, including Mentum
Planet, Mentum Ellipse, Mentum Fusion, Mentum CellPlanner, Mentum
LinkPlanner along with tailored Mentum Geodata, enable network operators
and engineers to maximize their design potential. Through the company's
global presence and focused business approach, it helps more than 375
customers in 120 countries define their wireless networks. Mentum is a
privately held company headquartered in Paris, with offices in Dallas,
Ottawa, Hong Kong, Stockholm and Tokyo. Visit www.mentum.com
for more information.
About Intermap
Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Intermap (www.intermap.com)
is a leading provider of Location-Based Information (LBI), setting the
industry standard for creating high-resolution 3D digital models of the
earth’s surface. The Company has remapped entire countries, to build
NEXTMap® national databases consisting of affordably priced elevation
data and geometric images of unparalleled accuracy. Turnkey solutions
can be purchased from the Company’s NEXTMap Online Store, a hosted web
services platform offering a variety of subscription levels by
geography, data-layer, individual or enterprise wide license. Intermap’s
cloud-based hosted model offers customers the most convenient and
affordable method to satisfy a customer’s needs with both a
Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-service (SaaS) options.
For more information about Intermap’s web services, please visit http://www.intermap.com/en-us/purchase.aspx.
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