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Course benefits
This seminar is created for management personnel who are considering a municipal, public safety, or campus Broadband Wireless network, and who need an unbiased, technology-neutral overview of financial, technical, and architectural options. LEVER’s expert municipal-network planners share their experience, outlining a step-by-step approach to evaluation of alternatives for your custom network solution.
At the end of this one-day course, you’ll have practical templates for you and
your municipal stakeholders to complete, which formalise a process of
designing your wireless network. You’ll be able to guide the decision-making on
services to offer, development of the initial business case, and selection of a
network ownership/operations model. You’ll have enough technical
understanding to discuss intelligently what Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and various
proprietary wireless options can contribute to your community. You’ll have a
better sense of what tasks you can tackle in-house versus what tasks you’ll
want to outsource to an engineering services organisation.
Who Should Attend
management personnel who are considering a
municipal, public safety, or campus Broadband Wireless network, and who need
an unbiased, technology-neutral overview of financial, technical, and
architectural options.
Course Pre-requisites
None.
Why this course?
Training from the creators of the technology™ - This course is developed in conjunction with DoceoTech, the US-based IEEE Training partner and WiMAX Forum member that is uniquely focussed on WiMAX training and certification.
Europe's leader in Wireless Training and Certification - LEVER Technology Group PLC are Europe's leading company for training and certification in wireless technologies, covering more technologies, in more depth, than any other company.
Scheduled courses and Onsite / One-Company training - LEVER deliver the most comprehensive training schedule in Europe. We deliver tailored training around the World for organisations of all types.
LEVER and Wireelss
LEVER Wireless courses are delivered by expert instructors, and deliver interactive class experiences, with cutting-edge perspectives on the key issues and trends with Wi-Fi, WiMAX, Mesh and other key technologies.
LEVER is a full-service Wireless consultancy, training and solutions company, with standards-based Wireless courses written specifically for Wireless network design engineers, fundamental courses for managers and non-technical staff, and Wireless training and certification tracks for Wireless engineers.
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Course Content
Introduction to the LEVER Mesh Planning Process
Four modules of Background Knowledge
Municipal Broadband Planning Steps
Skill Sets Required on your team
Practical Tools
Background Knowledge: Wireless Applications
Residential and Commercial Broadband
Is there a business case for a second or third
residential broadband provider?
Public Safety
Fixed data and video cameras
Mobile data
Increased Automation of Municipal Operations
Public Works
Public Transportation
Education
Municipalities as anchor tenants
What our experience tells us about target applications
Background Knowledge: Wireless Technologies
Overview of a Municipal Broadband Wireless network
Wi-Fi as a compelling access technology
Mesh network attributes
Reduced backhaul requirements
Reliability
Reduced network engineering
Single vs. multiple-radio options
WiMAX’s present and future, including mobility
Pre-Standard options
Frequency bands available for Municipal Wireless
Relative strengths and weaknesses of each technology
Worldwide deployment status of each technology
Background Knowledge: Industry Players
Leading Wi-Fi vendors
Leading WiMAX vendors
Leading vendors of non-standard solutions
Systems Integrators
ISPs pursuing Municipal Broadband
Background Knowledge: Case Studies with various Business Models
Philadelphia: The Earthlink model of a large Public/Private
partnership
Mid-size city Public/Private Partnership
Municipally-owned utility case study
Rural US Municipal Broadband case study
Sources of Funding
Municipal Broadband Planning Steps
Assessing the needs
Selecting the Services
Choosing the business model
Analysing the Frequency and technology options
First-cut Financial Model, and decision to proceed
Request for Proposal
Vendor evaluation and selection
Detailed Design and Implementation
Optimisation, Maintenance, and Planning for technology upgrades
Skill Sets required on your team
Market Research for Business Case Analysis
RF Engineering
Financial planning
Project Management
Practical Municipal Mesh Planning Tools, and how to use them
Take-home Application and Service Planning Worksheet
Technology job aid: Strengths and Weaknesses
Frequency job aid: Strengths and Weaknesses
CAPEX and payback estimation spreadsheet
Demonstration of EDX Wireless SignalPro® software tool, with
SignalMX™ Mesh Network Design module
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