User guide

Aries Reference Manual Section 1 – Overview
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Table of Contents
ARIES ...............................................................................................................................1
AUTONOMOUS TETRA NETWORK................................................................................1
PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT TOOL ......................................................................1
USER GUIDE AND REFERENCE MANUAL....................................................................1
TABLE OF CONTENTS....................................................................................................2
DISCLAIMER....................................................................................................................3
1 OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................4
1.1 What is Aries?............................................................................................................................. 4
1.2 System Overview........................................................................................................................ 5
1.3 Data Security............................................................................................................................... 6
2 VIEWING AND ANALYSING DATA ..........................................................................7
2.1 User Access Levels.................................................................................................................... 7
2.2 Logging In ................................................................................................................................... 7
2.3 Selecting Data for Analysis ....................................................................................................... 9
2.3.1 Analysis profiles....................................................................................................................9
2.3.2 Filter by Date ........................................................................................................................9
2.3.3 Filter by Probe ....................................................................................................................10
2.3.4 Filter by Base Site ..............................................................................................................10
2.3.5 Filter by Area ......................................................................................................................11
2.3.6 Filter Events........................................................................................................................12
2.3.7 Filter Custom ......................................................................................................................13
2.4 Using Maps ............................................................................................................................... 14
2.4.1 Icon Colour .........................................................................................................................21
2.4.2 Icon Type............................................................................................................................23
2.4.3 Square Km Analysis ...........................................................................................................24
2.4.4 Failure Simulation Mode.....................................................................................................25
2.5 Using Graphs ............................................................................................................................ 26
2.5.1 Values Type Graphs...........................................................................................................26
2.5.2 Summary Type Graphs ......................................................................................................27
2.6 Using the Table......................................................................................................................... 28
2.7 Using Warnings ........................................................................................................................ 29
2.8 Using Summary ........................................................................................................................ 32
2.9 Using KPI................................................................................................................................... 35
2.10 Using Neighbour Analysis....................................................................................................... 37
3 VOICE QUALITY TESTING .....................................................................................41
3.1 How PESQ works...................................................................................................................... 42
3.2 Performance.............................................................................................................................. 43
3.3 Which PESQ?............................................................................................................................ 44
3.4 Voice Quality Testing using Aries .......................................................................................... 45
3.5 Voice Quality Analysis ............................................................................................................. 46
3.6 Marked Samples ....................................................................................................................... 48
4 ADMIN FUNCTIONS ................................................................................................49
4.1 Configuring Networks .............................................................................................................. 49
4.2 Configuring Users .................................................................................................................... 51