Complan®
About Complan®
Complan is used by satellite operators, satellite service providers, and end-user satellite network engineers operating on both commercial and military satellites. Anyone who manages a large amount of satellite capacity or who operates large or complex satellite networks will potentially benefit from the use of Complan. Utilizing Complan, capacity engineers can manage higher volumes of capacity than are possible with traditional link budget tools or in-house developed systems. They are able to quickly analyze their networks, perform complex trade-off analyses not otherwise practically possible, and optimize system design to make efficient use of space and ground-segment resources.
Benefits
– Reduce costs by maximizing space-segment capacity utilization
– Perform trade-off analyses to minimize ground-segment infrastructure costs
– Design complex satellite networks with ease
– Manage and efficiently plan large scenarios with hundreds or thousands of links in multiple transponders
– Achieve orders-of-magnitude increase in productivity of satellite planners
– Track power and bandwidth utilization, and discover “hidden” capacity
– Troubleshoot operational plans and easily identify complex problems
– Evaluate future satellite systems and assess long-term capacity requirements
– Plan with confidence using the most accurate, laboratory and field verified models
– Ensure that transmission plans comply with customer lease allocations, FCC/ITU limits and inter-system coordination agreements
Major Features
Analyze and Optimize Technical
Aspects of a Satellite System with Ease
– Has the ability to model entire satellites and plan a large number of links simultaneously
– Provides detailed modeling of amplifier non-linear gain and phase-shift transfer characteristics, IMUX and OMUX filter characteristics, SFD/gain settings, uplink and downlink copol, cross-pol antenna gain patterns, and G/T and EIRP contours
– Allows for the development of power-sharing strategies for multi-beam high-throughput satellite systems
– Accurately models thermal noise, intermodulation noise, propagation impairments, and all major sources of interference – adjacent-carrier (ACI), co-channel (CCI) and adjacent satellite (ASI)
– Facilitates the transition of traffic to new satellites with intuitive frequency plans and carrier reassignment functions
– Uplink Maps include: required uplink EIRP, transmit terminal antenna size or HPA/BUC size, carrier C/N or availability as a function of transmit location, and uplink PSD limit margin (FCC or ITU)
– Downlink Maps include: carrier downlink EIRP, clear-sky Eb/No or C/N, availability under rain, required receive terminal G/T or antenna size, and aggregate ASI C/I
– Extensive set of reports and plots in ASCII, Word, Excel, and PDF
– Graphical frequency plan report
– Detailed and summary link budget reports
– Noise, margin, and power summary reports
– Rain analysis, predicted link availability, and required rain margins
– Power spectral density reports and plots – carrier power, intermodulation, co-pol and cross-pol spectrum at receive earth stations
– Broadcast performance report provides transponder and link performance for a list of cities or lat-lon locations
– Sun outage reports
– Optimizes the configuration of the satellite, including gain settings, pointing of steerable antennas, and spacecraft platform bias
– Includes the ITU, PAP, DAH, and Crane Two Component propagation models; and includes comprehensive databases of rainfall, and other climate statistics
– Extremely fast computation utilizing sophisticated non-linear optimization algorithms
– Powerful features for broadcast/wide-area planning and performance prediction
– Provides drag-and-drop carrier frequency assignment and frequency grooming functions
– Interfaces with commercial Communication
System Monitoring (CSM) systems
– Saves plans in XML standard file format and can be viewed/modified by publicly available tools
Enterprise Capacity Manager® (ECM™)
Customer Link Budget Tool (CLBT®)
Plans submitted by customers through CLBT can be imported into Complan, however, this is deprecated functionality, and will likely be removed in a later version of Complan.
Antenna Coverage Program (ACP™)
Sun Outage Calculator (SunOut™)
Complan is available in two versions:
Complan Enterprise Edition can model multiple transponders within a plan and is suitable for satellite operators.
Complan Professional Edition is limited to modeling one (1) transponder per plan and is suitable for satellite service providers and end users. In either case, there is no limit to the number of plans that may be created or used with Complan.
Complan runs on Windows 10/11.
