Engineering

• EF&I – Engineering, Furnish & Installation

  CHR’s experienced engineering and technical team will tie together the threads that ensure you meet commitments to clients and investors. Our Engineering, Furnish and Installation (EF&I) professionals will successfully integrate your network for performance and profitability—leveraging multi-vendor relationships and decades of regulatory experience to ensure timely roll-outs.

  You have the vision to grow your infrastructure—we have the resources to bring the design and implementation to reality.

  CHR Solutions EF&I Proficiencies

  • Network architecture and design
  • Multi-vendor management and procurement advantages
  • Logistics and support (Rack and Stack)
  • Implementation and training
  • Regulatory and finance—BIP, BTOP and RUS
  • FTTH, IP and IPTV specialties
  • 4G wireless core and site acquisition/turn up

• Network Engineering & Construction

  Our team of experts have designed and managed the construction of numerous middle-mile fiber networks across the US. Our electronics engineering experience includes design solutions for WDM, Gig E, SONET, MPLS, core network data routers, TDM and VoIP switching, IPTV head-end, and active, passive and hybrid access platforms.

  We actively manage the procurement and implementation processes and have the capability to implement and provision the electronics equipment. Our outside plant staff develop fiber construction specifications based on your project design requirements, manage the construction project and complete closeouts of the contract. As part of this process, CHR provides CAD mapping and as-built network data for your operations staff.

• Wireless

  Wireless services have become a critical telecom service offering, adding the fourth element of the “quad” play. CHR’s Wireless Services team has years of experience in assisting providers with their wireless plays.

  Wireless Services Overview

  • Point-to-Point and Point-to-Multipoint assistance for licensed and unlicensed plays. This includes path analysis, construction monitoring and frequency coordination
  • Microwave license applications, feasibility studies, cost analysis, path profiles, equipment analysis, installation and testing
  • Cellular/PCS build-outs, site surveys, propagation studies, tower siting, construction and inspection and follow-up testing
  • Filings and other regulatory issues
  • RF engineering
  • Transport and interconnection
  • LEC and facility agreements
  • Carrier partnerships
  • Carrier application reviews and requirements
  • Merger evaluation
  • Purchase evaluation
  • Bi-directional amplifier installations
  • Frequency coordination
  • Cell site and wireless system optimization
  • Market research and strategy

CHR Solutions is able to review a service providers network and develop a Network Plan and Design able to meet today’s complicated broadband requirements to provide voice, data, and advanced services like IPTV to their customers. The Network Planning & Design process is completed through cooperation with the service provider to meet the required customer needs and incorporates all the requirements elements including the backbone network, transport, and access all the way through to the customer premise equipment. This process requires the skills and knowledge to blend TDM and IP technologies together to provide a seamless service to the customer.