Network Consulting and Integration

For service providers, building or evolving network infrastructure is a critical component of offering innovative services, reducing customer churn and increase average revenue per subscriber (ARPU). Increased complexity of devices, applications, services and operations and billing systems has created a need for strategic partners who can deliver deep domain expertise, cost-effective resources, and well proven processes for network design and integration of new infrastructure.

Aricent’s network consulting and integration services are based on thousands of consultants and engineers worldwide and hundreds of highly successful engagements with the world’s leading service providers.

Aricent’s network consulting and integration service portfolio provides end-to-end network integration services throughout the lifecycle of the project – from network consulting, network design and planning to deployment, integration and maintenance support. This approach ensures fast and non-disruptive network upgrades that reduce service rollout time and speed new customer and revenue acquisition.

The portfolio includes:

• Network Consulting
• Radio Network Planning
• Network Deployment
• Network Readiness Acceptance
• Network Optimization
• Network Operation and Maintenance

Network Consulting

As part of the Network Consulting Services, a business planning and technical team assists customers with technology evaluation, business case, performing market assessment and understanding the revenue impact.

Radio Network Planning

With the help of advanced tools, Aricent engineers engage in a detailed RF Planning, Coverage, Capacity and throughput analysis.

At the end of the exercise, a detailed Radio Network Planning report is compiled.

Network Deployment

Network Deployment is carried out in three phases:

• Radio Access & Core Network
• Backhaul
• Traffic Engineering

Network Readiness Acceptance

Aricent integrates the elements into a network solution and ensures successful interaction at the network level. Various issues such as bandwidth allocation and fault tolerance are addressed.

Network Optimization

Network Optimization includes defining and conducting drive tests, analyzing results and retuning of cells. Various important parameters are considered for auditing, tuning and optimization .

Network Operation and Maintenance

Aricent has a team of dedicated engineers who are specifically dedicated to network operations. Aricent’s engineers are trained to keep your network running at optimal performance levels. We can monitor network performance and troubleshoot problems before they occur, and we can maintain and support complex multi-vendor products.