NAP - Network Analysis and Planning

NAP: Network Analysis and Planning

Network modeling and simulation software for telecom companies and service providers to design, analyze, optimize and visualize communication networks

What is NAP - Network Analysis and Planning?

NAP - Network Analysis and Planning is a specialized network modeling and simulation software targeted for the telecommunications industry. It enables telecom companies, service providers, and network equipment vendors to design, analyze, optimize and visualize a wide variety of technology-specific communication networks such as 5G, FTTx, mobile backhaul, metro Ethernet and more.

Key capabilities and benefits of using NAP include:

• Build detailed models of existing or planned networks with various physical and logical network elements like base stations, switches, routers, links, cloud resources, towers and more
• Conduct what-if analysis to compare network design alternatives identifying tradeoffs between cost, reliability, latency, bandwidth and other KPIs
• Identify both physical layer issues (fiber cuts, node failures etc.) and IP/MPLS layer issues (traffic congestion, MPLS tunnel utilization etc.) through event-driven network simulations
• Optimize network architectures for maximum reliability and resiliency within cost constraints
• Analyze optimal locations for new cell sites or network nodes based on geographic demand data
• Visualize end-to-end network connectivity and performance metrics on geospatial maps for better understanding

With its carrier-grade scaling and simulation capabilities, NAP enables faster and better network planning decisions critical for dealing with the growth in bandwidth demand driven by 5G and fiber broadband deployments.

NAP - Network Analysis and Planning Features

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