Magister SimLab supporting product development, R&D and business

Magister SimLab integrates the whole workflow of network simulation into one service starting from scenario and campaign design, through simulation execution and monitoring, to the analysis of the results. Read here what its demo users have to say about the service.

We value our customers’ insight and feedback. They are essential in improving Magister SimLab, and making it more suitable for our customer’s use cases.

In January 2022, three SatCom companies – Sateliot, SES and Thales Alenia Space France – were selected as SimLab demo users for one month. Each company uses simulators to support their product development, R&D or business, but they all had their own needs and expectations towards Simlab.

The pilot phase has now come to an end. We are glad that each company decided to continue discussions about the SimLab cooperation with us. But before that, we were curious to know what they thought about the service, and how they would like to enhance it.

Understanding the possibilities of the system simulations

Sateliot needs simulation capabilities to support internal product development and to conduct a performance characterization of their services. For them, the SimLab piloting phase was an eye-opening experience:

“The overall process has been very useful to understand better the scope and possibilities offered by the SimLab framework. We see SimLab as a sort of “front-end” to provide easy access to simulation platforms. This could be very convenient once the “back-end” simulation is well understood and parametrized in a proper way to be exposed via SimLab.”

→ Magister SimLab comes with online documentation, which is being constantly improved. In addition, the use cases can be jointly defined and tailored for customer needs enabling the most essential parameters and statistics.

“A good simulator with a lot of potential”

Thales Alenia Space France was looking for support for their R&D and standardization:

“SimLab is a very good simulator with a lot of potential. The demonstration has been a good opportunity to get a better understanding of the principles and capabilities of the network level simulators. More flexible parameters might be required. It would also be useful to offer some interpretation or tools for post-processing, or provide some possibility to convert / extract simulation results in Excel.”

→ It is critical for Magister that we have real potential customers testing the service; it gives us insight about customer needs, and also the usability of the service. More flexible post-processing capabilities are essential for even more powerful results analysis, and it is in our development roadmap.

“A real and meaningful simulation system basis for satellite constellation evaluation”

SES Luxembourg, on the other hand, was interested in finding a possible set of complementary simulation capabilities and features for 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN):

“Magister SimLab provides a real and meaningful simulation system basis for satellite constellation evaluation. Standardized input file formats and output file formats would allow easy integration into a wider range of simulation toolsets.”

→ Agreed. The inputs and outputs are related to the simulator features and capabilities, and thus, not necessarily directly related to Magister SimLab. However, it is clearly agreed that standardized and/or commonly accepted file formats should always be preferred.

After the pilot phase, SimLab will be enhanced based on the received feedback.

Are you interested in finding out how SimLab could help your business? Read more here and contact us!