Webinar: MW planning: May 2013
Date: 2 May 2013 Time: 10am GMT Venue: Online Target audience: Customer only In response to demand ATDI are presenting second in the series of webinars on planning microwave networks. This webinar
Webinar: Frequency Planning: May 2013
Date: 23 May 2013 Time: 10am GMT Venue: Online webinar Target audience: radio planners, spectrum managers and regulators This event aims to demonstrate the features and functions of the spectrum
Microwave and Radio Electronics Week 2013: April 2013
Conference & Exhibition: 16-18 April 2013 Venue: Pardubice, Czech Republic Information: http://marew.upce.cz/ This event is produced by Czech and Slovakian technical universities as a platform
Webinars: Managing Neighbours: March 2013
Date: 7 March 2013 Time: 10am GMT Venue: Online Target audience: Customer only Using live demonstrations this webinar will demonstrate how to set up, define and manage handovers to neighbours.
Webinar: MW link planning: January 2013
This webinar is targetted at ICS telecom/ICS LT and HTZ warfare users who set up and manage microwave links. This event will include mw links for cross-water paths and wind farms. This webinar will
Webinar: Propagation models: November 2012
Date: 6 December 2012 Time: 10am GMT Target audience: By invitation only Method: Online webinar This webinar will cover the various types and uses of propagation models within ICS telecom and
Webinar: Introducing ICS telecom v.11: October 2012
After last years’ success ATDI is repeating this masterclass for all ICS telecom users. This customer-led event will commence with a demonstration of new and improved features followed by direct access
NATO CAX FORUM - CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION: September 2012
This forum will focus on technical items and operating procedures related to simulation- based exercises and training support, promoting the exchange of information and best practices among the NATO staff
Webinar: Clutter layers: September 2012
This webinar aims to look at the different uses of clutter layers within ATDI’s software solutions to ensure users get the best results every time. Webinar content will include: What data is required
Webinar: Planning and modelling LTE networks: July 2012
This webinar examines how network operators manage their networks through the network life cycle from early planning to interference analysis and optimization. This event will include live demonstrations
Webinar: ATDI software - now with added Bing: July 2012
ATDI radio planning and spectrum management tools are well known for handling various types of cartographic data. This is now completed with support of latest Bing Maps. Bing Maps (previously Live Search
Webinar: Spectrum Licensing: June 2012
Join ATDI for their latest online webinar on spectrum licensing. This customer-only event will focus on the application and management of spectrum/block licences. The webinar will include: How to
Will you still love me when I get ode?: May 2012
ATDI is entering into the true spirit of the Olympics. We’re mindful that the early games had two parts in that competitors were judged on both their athletic prowess and their poetry. So, while you
Old uses for modern words – Phase2: May 2012
Upgrade – going to big school for the first time Pixel – one of Bob Geldof’s daughters Byte – what dogs do! KB – a poor counterfeit of a peanut brand MB – nearly an honour from the queen GB
Old uses for modern words:: April 2012
Apple Mac – a waterproof covering to keep your fruit dry Podcast – shelled peas Internet – where Yorkshire fishermen keep their catch Digital switchover – manually changing the channel
The cost of the waves: March 2012
ATDI has been proud to help Britain’s favourite charity cut its costs (and I’m not putting ATDI and RNLI in the same sentence because that just looks like a bad hand at Scrabble). It’s tough running
Blogging marvellous: March 2012
Vibrating Tattoo…I thought at first that that might the name of a dodgy heavy metal band I saw one drunken night at a questionable venue in the 80s. Turns out it’s Nokia’s new patent. The Finnish
Webinar: Using Clutter Layers in ICS telecom: March 2012
This webinar aims to look at the different uses of clutter layers within ATDI’s software solutions to ensure users get the best results every time. Webinar content will include: • Understanding
Electronic Warfare Europe - Exhibition and Conference: February 2012
This event brings together speakers and delegates from the military, politicians, scientists and engineers to discuss the latest developments in EW across land, maritime, air/space and EM environments. ATDI
Boxers, lawyers and fighters: February 2012
Did anybody else think that that brawl between David Haye and Dereck Chisora looked like the physical equivalent of all those big companies currently in court over patent disputes? The two types of clashes
Going green (while we still can): February 2012
Human deaths in the billions, irreversible climate change and the curtailing of the Earth’s ability to support life. Wow, sounds like a poster for a straight-to-DVD science fiction film. I wish it was.
So help me: January 2012
Why are those numbers on which we can contact big companies called helplines? See if this one sounds familiar. You call a corporation’s “support” people with your query and have a profitable chat
Webinar: Modelling reflections: January 2012
Modelling radio networks to identify, reduce and mitigate the effects of harmfulinterference is key to radio planners. As part the ATDI wbinar programme our next event cover modelling reflections and
Welcome Home: January 2012
It’s a new year (yes, we spotted that). Is this your first year of working mainly from home? ATDI has long since embraced this wonderful liberation; when people are freed from daily travel to an office,
Show us your crystal balls: December 2011
If I could see into the future, I’d do the lottery more often. If the journalists on Forbes magazine could see into the future, they’d make enough money so they could stop being journalists on Forbes
Satan's Blog: December 2011
I know we can all regard our mobiles as devilishly frustrating at times (whoever dreamed up the idea of calling them smartphones?) but Bishop Claudio Silvero of the Catholic Church in Paraguay reckons
Webinar programme - 2012: November 2011
Webinars under development. Watch this space! Building on the success of this years' events the ATDI team are working on a webinar programme for next year. Watch this space for events starting
Webinar: Introducing online services: November 2011
In today's internet connected world, few of us expect to sit in front of a desk top application for everything we do. Nowadays we expect to gain access via the internet; radiocommunications is no different.
Three tablets a day: November 2011
It’s good to see how tablets are helping the elderly improve the quality of their lives. If you follow ATDI’s Twitter feed – go on, admit it; you know you do – you’ll see the mention we
ATDI helps to set a new global standard: November 2011
A revised recommendation to give guidance to engineers in how to keep aircraft safer during the planning of radio services is becoming a reality – and ATDI is at the centre of its inception. The
Making the most of newly-free spectrum: November 2011
Perfect planning prevents poor performance, plus produces potential – publicly promoting potent possibilities. The UK’s biggest holder of spectrum, the Ministry of Defence, is working towards
Introducing Sarah Sasson, ATDI Marketing Manager: November 2011
It’s not just the engineers at ATDI who have a passion for things digital. Marketing manager Sarah Sasson shares the view that there’s a digital dividend to be had. In Sarah’s case, it’s about
Webinar: ICS telecom Masterclass: November 2011
After last years’ success ATDI is repeating this event for ICS telecom and HTZ warfare users. This customer-led event will give users direct access to the presenter to raise both FAQs and other technical
Spectrum Management Forum 2011: November 2011
Join ATDI the Spectrum Management Forum at Hotel Concorde La Fayette (Paris, France) from 14-16 November 2011. The conference will focus on spectrum refarming and redeployment. Cyprien
Webinar Recording: Can LTE co-exist with other services?: October 2011
This webinar illustrates how LTE can coexist with broadcast (DVB-T) and cellular (GSM) channels. Using modelling the demo will illustrate how LTE operators and their adjacent system operators identify
Conforming to GE06 Digital Broadcast Plan: September 2011
Aim of webinar: This webinar aims to illustrate how regulators and spectrum managers can coordinate their digital broadcast systems in line with industry standards. Date: 29 September 2011 Time: 10am
Welcome to the ATDI blog: September 2011
Welcome to ATDI’s slightly sleeker website, including a revamped members’ section and this exciting new blog. One definition of blogging I saw was: inconsequential, unspellchecked drivel. This one
Making airports safe for moving planes: September 2011
The shape of air travel is changing, and so is the shape of airports. New building work is taking place at a number of major international air hubs and each structure that goes up or is re-configured
Planning a budget: profits on the radar: September 2011
The challenging economic climate is taking ATDI’s planning expertise into a new area – finance. The company is now intimately involved in the business plan of a number of organisations as developers
Introducing Sarah Byrne, ATDI General Manager: September 2011
To be a General Manager it helps to have an interest in many things, as ATDI’s Sarah Byrne knows all too well. “It’s the variety of work that keeps my job interesting,” Sarah says. “With
ATDI introduces latest Global Mapper Plug-in: August 2011
This latest release will enable users to import a wide range of readily available imagery, terrain and clutter data into formats suited to ICS Telecom, HTZ Warfare and ICS Basic as well as benefitting
Introducing Paul Grant: August 2011
ATDI lead engineer Paul Grant knows all about being good in the air. As centre-half for Canterbury City reserves, Paul is very experienced in dealing with an aerial problem. While at 35 he acknowledges
Spectrum Refarming Splits The Industry: August 2011
The decision last month by UK spectrum regulator Ofcom to allow radio systems operators to re-sell the resources they own – the so-called re-farming of frequencies– has provoked fears that any re-allocation
Fifteen and Fabulous: August 2011
The only thing that has been smoothing the practice of radio longer than ATDI UK is Terry Wogan. The company has been planning, modelling and consulting for regulators, air traffic controllers, commercial
Webinar: Can LTE co-exist with other services?: July 2011
The webinar will include a live demonstration into modelling the effects of LTE on other systems. With potential interferers identified the demo will model typical mitigation techniques to reduce the impact. The
The first fifteen: June 2011
ATDI is 15. To mark its first decade-and-a-half in business, a lunch was held for invited account managers at the Savoy Hotel in London. Those attending came from commerce, the military and governmental
6th European Annual Spectrum Management Event: June 2011
June 2011 Date: 14-15th June 2011 Venue: The Management Centre Europe, Brussels Now in its 6th year, the European Spectrum Management Conference has an established reputation as the major European
ATDI precision helps Norway reap the digital dividend: May 2011
Norway is about to reap the rewards of the digital dividend and ATDI is helping bring in the harvest. The country’s spectrum regulator, NPT, is preparing to auction slots in the 790-862 MHz range
Introducing ICS Basic v.10.0.1: May 2011
The software that is defining the airwaves from the arctic circle to the Mediterranean has reached a double-figure milestone. ATDI’s planning and modelling tool ICS Basic is now available in version
Introducing Nick Kirkman: May 2011
ATDI principal engineer Nick Kirkman is a master of the waves – be they radio or ocean. When Nick is not helping to create and manage radio systems, he can often be found sailing his J80 racing yacht
Bridges to Beehive in one easy move: May 2011
ATDI has been on the go for 15 years and now it’s on the move. At the end of May, the company is uprooting from its base in Three Bridges, Crawley, and relocating to the highly regarded art deco surroundings
ICS Basic v.10.0.0 - What's new & much more: May 2011
Date: Thursday 19 May 2011 Time: 10am GMT Venue: Webinar Audience: Customer only This event will run in conjuction the latest release of ICS Basic and is open to users of both Basic and ICS Telecom.
Introducing HTZ Warfare v.16: April 2011
Date: 5 April 2011 Time: 10am GMT Venue: Webinar Audience: Customer only More information to follow. For more information or to register contact: sarah.sasson@atdi.co.uk
Sweden shapes its future with the help of ATDI: March 2011
Sweden is reaping the rewards of the digital dividend - and those rewards are being passed on to consumers. The latest auction of spectrum in the 800 MHz band earlier this month raised the equivalent
Introducing Peter Paul: March 2011
The buzzing noise heard by drivers on the M4 is just the sound of ATDI’s operations director clearing his head. Peter Paul can often be seen flying his light aircraft along the route of the motorway
Enhanced security for car fleets: March 2011
Car thieves can run but they can no longer hide. From fleet operators to private motorists, car owners are being given a new layer of protection from the angst of finding their parking space unexpectedly
Webinar Programme: March 2011
Forthcoming seminars include: Release of HTZ Warfare - introduction to the latest features and functions of v.16.0.0 Release of ICS Basic v.10.0.0 Details of release dates and webinars to follow
WEBINAR PROGRAMME EXTENDED: March 2011
The company introduced webinars last year and the warm response to the concept has encouraged ATDI to plan an expanded programme for 2010. “People tell us they like the webinars because they are just
MODELLING ANTENNAS & MORE: February 2011
Date: Tuesday 1 February 2011 Time: 10am GMT Method: Webinar Audience: Customer only This webinar will demonstrate the various methods of antenna modelling available within ICS Telecom & HTZ Warfare.
Keeping radio on the rails: January 2011
ATDI’s work in helping to keep rail passengers safe has been noted in the House of Lords. The Lords have been discussing the release of spectrum in the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands and have been and
TAKING CARE TO ATTAIN NEUTRALITY: January 2011
Spectrum neutrality is within the grasp of the radiocommunications industry – if the business is careful enough. Regulators are eager to offer spectrum resources on a service- and technology-neutral
WEBINAR: INTERFERENCE CALCULATIONS: December 2010
Mobile communications interference calculations in ICS Telecom and HTZ Warfare. This webinar aims to identify the different types of interference and how to solve. Content will include the types of interference
CHRISTMAS COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED!: December 2010
ATDI are pleased to announce the winner of this years' Christmas competition with the following caption: "If only I had used ICS Telecom, I would have got the coverage I needed!" The lucky winner
JRC rules the waves with ICS Manager: November 2010
Spectrum management is anything but static. The fluidity of the business of administering resources means companies are stepping into new territory as they pick up tasks that were traditionally in the
EXPANDING BORDERS: November 2010
ATDI is enhancing its relationship with its Indian customers through a new office in Mumbai. Headed by new managing partner Chirag Dadia, the office will offer customer support, training and consultancy
GROUNDBREAKING SALES IN SOUTH AMERICA: November 2010
ATDI’s proud tradition of helping regulators manage spectrum resources is being extended in four countries. El Salvador and Ecuador have begun using ATDI’s spectrum management platform, ICS Manager,
RADIO PLANING & MODELLING MOVES TO A NEW LEVEL WITH ICS TELECOM V.9.8: November 2010
ATDI’s ICS Telecom version 9.8 is the latest update to a tool that has been in use across the commercial and governmental sectors for well over a decade. It has been in continuous development throughout
THE HILLS ARE ALIVE TO THE SOUND OF TETRA: October 2010
Motorola is planning a Tetra network in one of Europe’s most mountainous nations and turned to ATDI for the expert planning and modelling advice it needed to make the planned system a reality. The
INTRODUCING ICS TELECOM V.9.8: October 2010
Date: Tuesday 19 October Time: 10am GMT Method: Webinar Audience: Customer Only ATDI are pleased to announce the release of v.9.8. This webinar will include all the latest features and functionality
USING VECTOR LAYERS & FILTERS TO ANAYLSE COVERAGE: September 2010
Date:23 September 2010 Time:10am GMT Method: Webinar Audience:Customer only This webinar will identify how to produce general coverage statistics, the generation of polygons as well as some tricks
ATDI SPECTRUM INNOVATION BRINGS BROADBAND TO TRAINS: September 2010
A nomad will often go where no-one has gone before, and ATDI is helping this one blaze a trail. Nomad Digital provides wireless broadband services to rail passengers by connecting trains to trackside
SAFER SAILING WITH ATDI: September 2010
The UK maritime community will benefit from the replacement of 3 national distress and safety communications services. Leading software solutions provider SunGard Public Sector Limited was awarded the
WEBINAR UPDATE: July 2010
Three ATDI webinars have been scheduled for the autumn. The events will cover the use of vector layers and filters to analyse coverage, modelling antennas using ICS Telecom, and co-existence in the spectrum. The
RE-RUN: BROADCAST SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORKS (SFN) WEBINAR: July 2010
Due to the popularity of this event we are holding another event. Please see details below: Date: Tuesday 13 July Time: 11am BST Method: Webinar Audience: Broadcasters and national regulators This
SWEDISH REGULATOR CHOOSES ATDI FOR SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT: June 2010
The Swedish regulator Post-och Telestyrelsen (PTS) has chosen ATDI Ltd, to define and tabulate the country’s radio resources. ATDI will use its flagship spectrum management tool, ICS Manager, to present
ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF WIND FARMS ON RADIO SYSTEMS: June 2010
Due to the success of our previous event we have scheduled a rerun. This event will demonstrate how to calculate the effects of wind farms on radar and other radio systems using live demo. The webinar
BROADCAST SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORKS (SFN): June 2010
Date: Tuesday 29 June Time: 10 am BST Method: Webinar Audience: Broadcasters and national regulators This webinar will focus on Single Frequency Networks and will examine both analogue and digital
NEW GOVERNMENT, OLD ISSUES FOR RADIOCOMMS: May 2010
The coalition’s first Queen’s Speech on Tuesday built on the previous Labour administration’s passion for wind farms, and did nothing to dispel the radiocommunications sector’s greatest fear about
GREENING THE COUNTRY: WIND FARMS AND WEBINARS: May 2010
Radiocommunications experts from across the civil and military sectors attended an ATDI webinar on the effects of wind farms on radio systems. The webinar used ATDI’s analysis of the impact of proposed
60 SECOND INTERVIEW: May 2010
What do you want to say to the new government? Encourage retail competition in telecoms by regulating to ensure open access on fair and reasonable terms to the fixed and mobile networks for resellers
TAMING EUROPE'S TALLEST TOWER: May 2010
Only in Liverpool are buses going to Speke, but public transport controllers need to be able to talk to them. In London, Transport for London (TfL) needed to ensure that it could remain in radio contact
ON RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS: May 2010
The key to the successful provision of a radio network is meeting customer requirements. But identifying what those requirements are is not a straightforward process - particularly when customers don't
PLANNING NEW FM STATIONS IN CONGESTED BANDS: May 2010
This webinar will use real-life scenario data imported into ICS Telecom with the parameters of a proposed new station input. The station will be assigned an optimal channel with its effect on other co-channel
INTRODUCING GOOGLE EARTH: March 2010
March 2010 This webinar will demonstrate how to import/export into Google Earth from both ICS Telecom and HTZ Warfare, as well as provide an overview of data types including formats such as MapInfo
WHITE PAPER: CREATING CLARITY IN NETWORK REQUIREMENTS: February 2010
The customer is always right. Except when they’re wrong. Or don’t actually know where they stand. The key to the successful provision of a radio network is meeting the requirements of the people
2010: WEBINARS PRGRAMME EXTENDED: January 2010
This year there will be a series of 30-minute webinars which will be free to customers. The events will present a host of different topics including technology developments, ‘how to’ guides for ATDI
2010: THE YEAR OF HARMONY AND FARMING: January 2010
Harmony will be major theme of this year, as regulators seek international coordination in spectrum management. But, the pace of change will not quicken, despite a pan-European political will. Actually,
ATDI OPENS DEBATE ON SPECTRUM SHARING: January 2010
Innovative thinking about how to make maximum use of limited spectrum resources was presented to an ATDI seminar. Company managing director Cyprien de Cosson presented a study paper looking at the coexistence
CREATING CLARITY IN NETWORK REQUIREMENTS: January 2010
The customer is always right. Except when they’re wrong. Or don’t actually know where they stand. The key to the successful provision of a radio network is meeting the requirements of the people
60 SECOND INTERVIEW: January 2010
The government is determined to build wind farms and concerns over the impact of turbines on radar is a secondary – at best – consideration. And that’s according to the government’s own publications
LATEST HTZ WARFARE RELEASE: January 2010
A decade of user feedback has been incorporated into the new version of ATDI’s battlespace planning and modelling tool, HTZ Warfare. The latest version, v.15.6.9, features a new content browser that
WARM THANKS AND BEST WISHES FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON: December 2009
On behalf of ATDI and, most importantly, some of the world's poorest people, thank you. Your support for our donation to Tree Aid (www.treeaid.org.uk) instead of Christmas cards means vulnerable communities
HOMING IN ON THE REAL STATE OF SPECTRUM: December 2009
Radio spectrum resources are like the housing market – and it’s all about location, location, location. Delegates at an ATDI seminar were told that the shortage of spectrum space is less an overall
ATDI & NATO DISCUSS BATTLESPACE SPECTRUM: November 2009
Wars are won in the airwaves and ATDI is at the forefront of NATO’s efforts to safeguard battlespace spectrum. Company representatives attended an exhibition mounted by NATO’s Consultation, Command
THIS AUTUMN'S BIG RELEASE COMING TO A SCREEN NEAR YOU: November 2009
ATDI are pleased to introduce ICS Telecom 9.6.5 For all the latest updates and new features please contact sales@atdi.co.uk Product demos are available via webcast.
TRIGGER LEVELS IN LIBERALISED SPECTRUM GOVERNANCE: November 2009
The radio spectrum is facing the same question as global financial structures: just how much interference should there be in the free market? The key to harmony in international radio spectrum usage
FAIR SHARES COULD BECOME THE LAW: October 2009
Radiocommunications companies are coming to terms with a radical new infrastructure concept – and it is a notion that may be forced upon them whether they like it or not. Infrastructure sharing is
GIANT TURBINES FUEL RADAR FEARS: October 2009
The UK government’s commitment to building the world’s biggest wind farm turbine blades has left the telecoms industry hoping due consideration will be given to their impact on air traffic control
UNCERTAIN FUTURE LOOMS AS OFCOM PICKS EXPERTS: October 2009
UK radio regulator Ofcom is facing an uncertain future. But, while it is waiting for the radical changes that a potential new government is promising, it is surrounding itself with expertise. A general
