Organizations win big with modernized network planning that slashes costs

Altman Solon is a leading multinational telecom infrastructure services firm renowned for their comprehensive network planning support, from strategy development to operations implementation. They provide fast, tailor-made solutions to companies and investors navigating the complex world of telecommunications.

Providing services in four continents and having laid thousands of network and route optimization plans across the globe, the company has spanned over 100 million locations and route miles and helped businesses optimize over $10B in network investments.

The telecommunications sector has long lacked the benefits of contemporary technology. With its outdated legacy infrastructures, voice-centric services, and manual processes, the industry struggles to meet the demands of an increasingly digital and data-driven world.

Altman Solon recognized the need to modernize the industry’s network planning approach by automating and improving estimate accuracy. Although they used a highly repeatable process, every implementation required them to start from scratch.

By streamlining their process and reducing human intervention they could improve the customer experience, using it as a differentiator that uses less human intervention, and sell it as a service to clients.

Creating a marketable software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that performs these repeatable tasks would reduce operational costs and boost efficiency and their clients’ ability to accelerate network deployment decisions.

Altman Solon chose Lumenalta to develop their application. Aligned with the client’s goal of optimizing deployment decisions, we focused on cost reduction and growth maximization through data-driven analysis and optimization techniques.

Lumenalta built Arrow, a cloud-based, algorithm-driven application capable of processing various inputs of customer data, geographic information, and materials datasets, to ultimately optimize application network deployment and expansion.

The application unifies Finance, Network Engineering, Sales, and Marketing, offering a complete view of network performance, market potential, and resource allocation.

Key features of the solution include:

The solution enables optimal site selection, ensuring regulatory compliance and efficient management of engineering and schematic requirements. It also offers an efficient blueprint for expansion and upgrades to streamline future scalability.

Altman Solon’s first mile of fiber optic cable was laid in under five months and has since transformed their approach to estimating and delivering services.

Arrow enables newfound network planning efficiencies that trickle across the organization. Advanced algorithms, automation, and system integration enable Altman’s clients to enhance their network planning and expansion plans and optimize the deployment of telecommunications networks, such as fiber, 5G, and broadband.

This has resulted in improved accuracy, cost reduction, and increased profitability.

Arrow’s algorithms simulate diverse network scenarios, empowering providers to generate precise, cost-effective deployment plans far more quickly than conventional methods.

By considering every path and obstacle, this algorithmic approach has helped clients reduce capital expenses by up to 15%.

Clients have seen financial returns of over 50% with the streamlined solution that combines certain elements while covering the most attractive locations and using less equipment and laying down less fiber.

This has dramatically accelerated fiber network design, condensing weeks of work into minutes while reducing errors and maximizing capital efficiency.

Thanks to various advanced features such as automated route planning, business case, financial optimization, and compliance reporting, Altman Solon’s application also enables fast decision making.

The platform’s swift scenario analysis capabilities enable network providers to pinpoint optimal routes and prioritize high-ROI locations. This data-driven approach fosters strategic network expansion decisions, a critical advantage in today’s competitive telecommunications landscape.