What’s your plan to ensure your Open RAN or wireless network meets your customers’ current and future performance demands? I’m Ryan Pettijohn, here for an open dialogue about a critical aspect of mobile network integration: RF planning and optimization.
Maximize ROI & stay competitive
Mobile networks are complex and must meet fast-changing demands. Staying competitive and maximizing ROI requires not just optimal network design, but also keeping a watchful eye on performance over time.
Performance monitoring: Three critical areas of concern
Wireless network performance can be measured in three critical areas:
- Is coverage reliable across your geographical footprint?
- Can you guarantee peak throughput capacity?
- Is quality of service meeting customer requirements?
Meeting performance objectives in these areas is a specialized effort – heavily dependent on the right expertise. Optimal planning and design sets your network up for success. It includes extensive field data collection, propagation modeling, site validation, and design and performance forecasting.
Monitoring and optimizing performance lets you know how the network measures up and how to improve it – including all aspects of drive testing, network benchmarking, troubleshooting, analysis, and recommendations for improvement.
The challenges of ensuring high network performance
Many mobile network operators face challenges consistently applying the right resources in the right places to ensure continuous high performance. Larger networks are more challenging, simply due to scope. Operators may find they don’t have enough in-house RF engineering staff to undertake all necessary projects.
Aggressive schedules, tight budgets, and demanding customers create pressure to deliver results quickly and efficiently. Changing traffic and coverage demands place stress on networks and those responsible for their operation.
And lastly, trusted partners with the right capabilities can be hard to find. For most operators, working with a trusted partner is the best way to meet critical wireless network performance targets – even though it might not be easy to find a partner with the needed technical skills, toolsets, geographic coverage, and responsiveness.
Finding a partner with RF expertise to meet critical performance targets
Look for a partner with in-house RF engineering expertise, who can scale to support you with qualified staff. Your chosen partner should have a track record of delivering budget-friendly results under tight deadlines. And they must be agile and innovative enough to respond effectively to changing needs and deliver the results you and your customers demand.
At Fujitsu, mobile networks are as important to us as they are to you. As a full-service network systems integrator, we work across all types of architectures and technologies to ensure high-performing mobile networks. We’re also a pioneer in Open RAN, a founding member of the Open RAN Policy Coalition, and an active member of the O-RAN alliance. Our decades-long track record of R&D investment in network analytics, network automation, and AI enable us to evolve and continually improve these technologies, including for RF networks.
Reach out and let’s keep the dialogue going.
Ask us how you can achieve your business objectives with optimal wireless network performance.
