From the buying side to the selling side, Glow Networks provides objective third-party analysis to validate net value assignment, determine future growth potential and provide detailed integration plans. Network assessment services quantify a network’s capabilities, determine its ability to provide value-added services, uncover potential technology issues and measure the networks scalability. Our clients achieve impressive results leveraging Glow Networks’ experience in operations management, network operations, and network optimization.

Key areas of the network assessment include the following:

• Mapping existing network infrastructure
• Determining network utilization and cost to scale
• Determining the integration requirements (cost and time) for gaining synergies
• Analyses of back-office systems (network management, CRM, order management, billing, etc) to determine capabilities of systems integration into the operations model and platform scalability
• Developing integration costs for back-office systems
• Reviewing and assessing the network’s fundamental operating model to highlight the effectiveness of business processes, operations cost structures, and potential areas of savings
• Identifying opportunities to expend existing infrastructure to handle greater demand, and redeployment opportunities for existing assets to improve performance and efficiency with little or no equipment purchases.

Glow’s analysis services will deliver an overview of our clients’ equipment and technology and a comparison will be made to other major suppliers in the same market segment, thereby providing ideal positioning for our clients’ products and services. Additionally, we help develop detailed plans for our clients’ customers that integrate their product roadmaps and allow them to optimize equipment configurations to enhance their overall service offerings.

Following are some examples of projects:

• Fiber characterization for a regional operator
• Transport network optimization for major wireless carriers
• RF data collection and basic optimization of CDMA/EvDO
• Hardware audit for central offices across the US for a wireless carrier
• Key performance indicator analysis on NGN network to improve performance