services

Specializing in Communications Systems

  • Land mobile, fixed and trunked voice radios
  • SCADA, mobile data, metering, and multi-point data radios
  • Broadband over power line (BPL) carrier radio systems
  • Digital TDM carrier-class microwave radio and multiplex systems
  • New IP technology microwave links and multi-point network radios
  • LAN/WAN data network wireless and distance connectivity.

Customer Needs Assessment and Technology Alternatives Analysis

  • Identify customer requirements musts & wants, potential plans, and constraints
  • Predict future capacity, security, protocol, reliability, maintainability, and cost concerns
  • Develop multiple preliminary alternate solutions that satisfy the musts and address the wants to some degree.

System Conceptual and Architectural Definition

  • Brainstorm with customer to build workable technology concepts for each alternative
  • Identify applicable architectural standards employed or preferred by customer
  • Create preliminary block diagram level of technical detail for alternatives in compliance with architectural standards
  • Review each preliminary alternative solution with customer to prioritize, refine, or reject.

Research Viable Alternatives, Rigorously Test Concepts and Prototypes

  • Identify any unproven or low-confidence technologies or applications in alternatives
  • Complete lab or field environment proof-of-performance testing for alternatives
  • Test to applicable standards or customer-defined requirements
  • Adjust design or eliminate alternatives based on information acquired from testing
  • Document results of performance testing for analysis and comparison.

Deliver Credible Design Solutions

  • Evaluate and prioritize alternative solutions against requirements, plans, constraints, and costs
  • Review evaluations with customer to confirm satisfaction of needs and select best solutions
  • Document selection of solutions and deliver to customer.

Provide or Assist with Background Information and Key Technology Training

  • Help ensure customer confidence in solutions and successful technology deployment
  • Provide assistance, as needed, with customer engineering and deployment efforts
  • Provide or assist with training of customer, as needed, on configuration, setup, and maintenance of implemented technologies.

Provide or Assist with Problem Analysis and Troubleshooting of Existing Technologies

  • Bring extensive applicable expertise in communications technologies to bear on existing problems.