MUSCAT -- The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) yesterday launched the Advanced Automated Spectrum Management System at Intercontinental hotel, Muscat.
The event, which was attended by a number of officials from the telecom sector and experts from LS telcom, the project supervisor, started with a speech by Dr Hamad al Rawahy, the Chief Executive of TRA, who said: the spectrum is a natural resource that has vital economic, social and cultural importance.
The spectrum bands are required to be allocated with a view to strengthen the Sultanate's position and competitive potentials in the telecom sector in accordance with the international radio regulations and the global trends to ensure its sustainability.
He added that TRA, represented in the Frequency Spectrum Unit, is exerting a great effort in the management and coordination of the frequency usage on the national and international levels to prevent harmful interferences resulting from the increasing demand for this natural resource which is shared equally by the entire world countries in fulfilment of the ITU recommendations.
Dr George, Board Member of Germany's LS telcom, delivered a speech saying that during the past 22 years LS telcom has become the world market leader in systems to support governmental institutions in licensing, controlling and distributing the resource "Spectrum" in a country very effective by the use of powerful software.
George added that the challenge being defined here was again a new quality compared with everything known so far. The system should be taking care for all kind of possible and even unusual cases. Up to 60 different and very complex business processes should be adapted by the system as well as loads of technical analysis stuff which even the International Telecommunication Union ITU in Geneva did only define but had never put in software properly. The system should be WEB enabled and do everything automated.
The new system will help the TRA Spectrum Management in carrying out its functions that are related to spectrum management, such as assisting in managing the daily work flow , the processing operations related to spectrum allocation, planning and distribution , spectrum engineering, coverage forecast, electromagnetic analysis, calculating the carrier-to-interference -ratio, complaints management , scheduling inspection procedures, controlling the spectrum, developing an interface between spectrum management and spectrum monitoring systems , as well as the provision of geographic information system to determine the geographical locations of frequencies.
© Oman Daily Observer 2014
