Newfield Wireless has provided Design and Optimization services to 7 wireless carriers in more than 75 markets in North America. The company has often helped develop the design and optimization standards and processes for new RF Engineering groups. The breadth of services provided by Newfield Wireless have included:

• RF Engineering Guidelines and Processes
• Tool Selection
• Training and Group Creation
• Network Design
• Network Optimization
• Propagation Modeling
• Model Creation

Newfield services can customize the approach, scope, and goals of a project to meet your specific requirements. These efforts are designed to support efficient future network expansion and optimization, since most clients want to develop and augment their internal engineering resources.

Stages

Newfield will establish your current objectives and future plans, including:

• Performance objectives
• Audits of the existing network
• Identifying Management and Engineering teams and their responsibilities
• Expansion and fill-in plans
• Carrier adds
• Technology and service launches

Newfield can incorporate a wide variety of tools to meet your requirements. The company has developed design solutions using standard industry products as well as custom solutions internal to client companies.

The optimization can integrate a wide variety of your available data sources. This includes using data from:

• Diagnostic monitor (DM) drive data
• Pilot scanner (Viper) drive data
• Service Measurements (Prospect)
• Network Translations
• Adjunct tools (Neighbor List tools, HO Matrix, etc.)
• RF Planning Tool
• Newfield Guided Optimizer™ (GO)

Each of the above sources contributes to an understanding of the existing problems and their causes. Using our experience, we develop the best course of action to optimize each cluster. Optimization recommendations are reviewed with the engineering team, approved, and implemented. Following implementation, we compare performance changes with expected changes and refine the process for your engineering group.

Newfield Wireless has been developing tools for improving the speed and accuracy of the design and optimization process. Many remain under internal development and testing with the services group for several years. Newfield's Guided Optimizer™ (GO) is the first tool of a suite of tools, released as a stand-alone product. It incorporates years of optimization experience, and is field-tested under a variety of conditions and user objectives.

Newfield Wireless can provide formal training for many tools and processes, but often prefers to teach engineering groups through hands-on design and optimization. This makes the groups more quickly self-sufficient. Newfield services can provide training for new markets, support intermittent tasks, and handle new projects that may arise over time. These may include:

• New market expansion
• Network calibration
• Special model development
• New tool selection and integration
• Roll-out of new technologies
• Difficult or excess design and optimization work

Newfield Wireless consulting services can help you develop the methods to achieve lasting network improvements through better network planning processes.