As telecommunications operators and network engineers understand specific operational
requirements drive early network architectural and design decisions for 4G networks. But they
also know that because technology standards usage practices and regulatory regimes change on
a continuous basis so do best practices. 4G: Deployment Strategies and Operational
Implications helps you stay up to date by providing the latest innovative and strategic
thinking on 4G and LTE deployments. It evaluates specific design and deployment options in
depth and offers roadmap evolution strategies for LTE network business development. Fortunately
as you ll discover in this book LTE is a robust and flexible standard for 4G communications.
Operators developing 4G deployment strategies have many options but they must consider the
tradeoffs among them in order to maximize the return on investment for LTE networks. This book
will show operators how to develop detailed but flexible deployment road maps incorporating
business requirements while allowing the agility that expected and unexpected network evolution
require. Such road maps help you avoid costly redeployment while leveraging profitable traffic.
Telecommunications experts and authors Trichy Venkataraman Krishnamurthy and Rajaneesh Shetty
examine various architectural options provided by the flexibility of LTE and their effect on
the general current and future capability of the designed network. They examine specific
features of the network while covering specific architectural deployment strategies through
example and then assessing their implications on both near- and long-term operations as well as
potential evolutionary paths. Besides helping you understand and communicate network upgrade
and architectural evolution road maps (with options) you will learn: How to plan for
accessibility retainability integrity availability and mobility How to balance loads
effectively How to manage the constraints arising from regulation and standardization How to
manage the many disruptive factors affecting LTE networks 4G: Deployment Strategies and
Operational Implications also outlines specific network strategies which network features and
deployment strategies support those strategies and the trade-offs in business models depending
on the strategies chosen. Best of all you will learn a process for proactive management of
network road map evolution ensuring that your network and your skills remain robust and
relevant as the telecommunications landscape changes.
