digitechx services presentation
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Unlock Your Networks Potential
Dr. Alex T. Smyth – Ph.D. President
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Leadership
Alex T. Smyth – President , Services Division
A leading telecommunication expert, Alex’s wealth of knowledge extends over four decades and two continents (United States & Europe). Strengthened with a PHD in Telecommunication Science, Alex’s significant contributions to the Telecom Industry are well known particularly in network Design Roll Outs, Swaps & Operations and Networks optimization to fulfill operators KPI’s and SLA’s as dictated by Operators.
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Network Evolution
Network technology has come a long way. In the field of communications, an evolving network is assumed, and in turn, carriers must be proactive in the evolution of network elements and performance. Although this is on every executive’s mind, the execution of modernization and network performance has many variables that can create conflicts.
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High Speed Network Evolution
The demand for High Speed Broadband through mobile devices ha created a new paradigm for cellular operators networks. The evolution from 2G, 3G to 4G and now 5G, has created issues for carriers that they have not faced in the past. Overhead on towers and support infrastructure has to be considered to make room for new technology. Decommissioning has to be addressed now, where in the past it was largely ignored.
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Maximize your Networks Potential
Network modernization projects are inevitable, and while they are large complex projects, the results – in terms of efficiency gains, coverage and performance – are well worth it. Performance is the main metric by which carriers shareholders and customers demand alike.
q Mobile operators are constantly adapting their networks to keep pace with market changes. Inevitably, adaptation must turn into a full modernization project – almost always involving infrastructure replacement and upgrades.
q Success of these complex projects relies on robust, continuous optimization. Optimization that is not only swap agnostic, and de-coupled from the planning, design and rollout processes, but also capable of handling countless network establishment processes.
q Digitechx delivers cross-technology and cross-platform support, which is an essential element for robust optimization.
A New Order of Wireless Services
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Digitechx Services
¤ Macro Optimization
¤ Audit & Q & A
¤ Modernization
¤ Decommissioning
¤ Asset Mitigation
¤ Carrier Adds
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A global offering
¤ We serve the world. Digitechx provides service to worldwide customers with our International presence.
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Network Optimization Management
Network optimization can be decoupled from the planning and rollout phases of the modernized network, making the overall process more efficient and faster, and enabling a seamless transition to full optimization of the new network.
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Next Generation Optimization
¤ In today’s complex wireless landscape, network elements need to be optimized to consider the crowded environments. This requires a macro approach, considering all of the elements in the environment and end to end optimization.
¤ The wireless service contractor has evolved into a “SME” model over the past 10 years and very few are focused on end to end solutions. This renders inefficient networks with elements that are not optimized properly.
¤ Digitechx staffs every project with technicians that are trained in all aspects of wireless technology. This approach renders a seamless integration and effective optimization, that considers macro optimization.
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Audit & Quality Assurance
¤ Network Executives rarely understands the details of their network performance.
¤ They get lip service and job preservation over form and function.
¤ Staff is compartmentalized and not versed to examine all elements of the network.
¤ Digitechx can deliver turnkey end to end audits replete with solution based reports to determine real network performance paradigms.
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Modernization
¤ The evolution of communications technology is on an exponential path and adopting these changes has created a competitive market within the industry. Clients demand these innovations or carriers will be ravaged by churn.
¤ These value added services and performance have to be supported with networks that can deliver the goods.
¤ Our engineers integrate new elements to coexist with legacy equipment, to provide seamless communications and superior performance.
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Decommissioning
¤ The deployment of new network technologies not only means that some older, legacy networks are becoming outdated, unreliable, and underutilized but also more expensive to operate and maintain.
¤ Carriers core competencies are the business of building networks, not dismantling.
¤ 52% of wireless operators do not have decommissioning strategies in place. Those who do have generally determined that outsourcing a specialist is more efficient then creating a department to handle it.
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Decommissioning Life Cycle
¤ Digitechx offers a full service, turnkey solution to address all of the aspects of decommissioning projects.
¤ a la Carte services are offered for those carriers who have internal staff to act as PM, but need individual services and crews.
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Asset mitigation
¤ Digitechx has an asset recovery division, whose sole focus is repurposing excess and surplus equipment.
¤ Our staff of professionals are dedicated to determining the valuation of used network elements, their useful life, and obsolescence risk.
¤ Digitechx has thousands of customers in emerging markets that consistently utilize secondary market equipment.
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Carrier Adds
¤ Digitechx can handle all aspects of carrier adds or replacements of Antennas, radios, Amplifiers, BSC, Power, Plant, Microwave and Backhaul infrastructure.
¤ We are staffed with 2 man tiger teams, 3 man and 4 man crews to handle all of your adds / subs require.
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A Case Study A practical application discussion
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Case Study – O2
The Network was ranked 4th out of five UK operators and was loosing subscribers due to the poor performance of the network.
Dr. Smyth’s task was to improve the service from the network by reducing the MPD (Minutes per Dropped call ), call completion rate, call holding time. and network quality.
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Case Study – O2 – cont.
Analysis:
Dr. Smyth examined the elements of Radio Access Network, he looked at the BSC to ensure inter BSC calls were handing over as programmed.
He then looked at the Inter MSc handovers and re mapped the problematic routes which had a positive result towards the network operations center.
The next step was to assess the impact of other antennas in the cluster and all other environmental elements both internal and external.
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Case Study – O2 – cont.
Execution:
First task was to Optimize the existing network by performing a drive test of the RBS and coverage areas.
From this and data recorded Smyth was able to establish the what elements of the network were not performing.
He first tackled the frequency re-tune of the cells to avoid the frequency contamination and imbalance.
Next task was to address the antenna azimuth and tilts to enhance the radio footprint coverage.
Lastly, he optimized all of the network elements in the cluster to allow seamless handover.
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Case Study – O2 – cont.
Results:
We also recommended and implemented constant network supervision by drive testing, upgrades to keep the performance of the network in compliance with the spectrum License.
The result of the network improvement is that 02 has been number one performing network in Europe, for the past ten years, and has the highest number of subscribers in the network while maintaining the lowest churn by subscribers.
With these network improvements, there was an increase of revenue approaching 20%.
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Call For Next Level Services
¤ Dr. Alex T Smyth Ph.D. – President Services Division
¤ 001-562-303-0143
¤ Bruno Cavelier – International Sales Director
¤ 001- 626-318-7081
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