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Connect44 UK Ltd; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Connect44 UK Ltd is seeking experienced network planning professionals to deliver comprehensive planning and optimization services across fixed and mobile networks. Candidates will manage projects from feasibility studies to delivery and support for telecom operators, utilizing advanced tools and methodologies. A deep understanding of fibre and microwave planning is essential, along with strong capacity management skills, to meet the evolving infrastructure demands in a dynamic market.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Professional development opportunities

Health benefits package

Qualifications

• Expertise in network architecture and design.
• More than 10 years of experience in fibre planning.
• Certified in relevant planning tools.

Responsibilities

• Deliver end-to-end network planning and optimization services.
• Manage capacity, coverage, and performance requests.
• Provide detailed design and operational management for fibre services.

Skills

Network planning

Capacity management

Network optimization

Fibre planning

Traffic analysis

Microwave planning

Education

Degree in Telecommunications, Engineering or related field

Tools

Megaplan

QGIS

Job description

Highly skilled network planning experts, specialised in a variety of services, including fixed, core, fibre, radio transmission, Radio Access, Distributed Antenna Systems, Wi-fi, and other specialist services.

Core Network Planning

Connect44 delivers Core Network Services from its Centres of Excellence and Network Operations Centres (NOC) in the UK and Romania. Our Core Network services provide planning, optimisation, integration, monitoring, remote intervention and field support services to Mobile Network Operators, Telecoms Fixed Networks, Aggregation Network Providers, Fibre Network internal and external customers and Telecoms Site Providers...

Our expert teams deliver network architecture solutions to our Network Operator customers, including the arrangement and interconnection of network elements; switches, routers, gateways, and servers. The architecture solution will cover default factors; scalability, redundancy, and fault tolerance, plus operator specific requirements, to ensure specific availability targets and efficient traffic management.

Our traffic analysis teams monitor traffic patterns, for voice, data, and multimedia services; critical elements to determine network capacity requirements and to determine core network service requirements, allowing our capacity planning teams to determine traffic loads and manage bandwidth, port and circuiting requirements.

Connect44 delivers network planning, capacity planning and optimisation services to network providers and operators across the UK and Europe. Recognising, understanding and supporting customers’ change solutions in their Radio Access Networks (RAN).

Connect44 help customers manage their network change; for instance, capacity management, network coverage, new product introduction, spectrum management, technology-sunsetting, the associated frequency re-allocation and migration, etc.

Our planning, post integration and operational optimisation services are vendor-agnostic, planning single and multi-operator services and can utilise the vendor’s, operator’s or our own planning tools.

Our services undergo continuous improvement processes and include pre-planning high-level-design, detailed low-level-design; capacity, coverage and propagation modelling; parameter planning and optimisation. We have specific expertise in network and network element data creation and loading/scripting, utilising Connect44 developed tools, removing the reliance on vendor’s proprietary data management tools. We also deliver DAS and in-building-solution survey and planning; 5G densification planning and a range of customer proprietary hybrids.

At Connect44, we understand the complex challenges faced by Network Operators in delivering high-capacity, low latency, and cost-effective solutions to their customers. Our expertise in Microwave Planning and change adaptation enables us to provide tailored solutions to meet our clients' specific needs. We offer end-to-end fibre services, from feasibility to on-premises acceptance, ensuring that our clients have the infrastructure necessary to support their operations. With our extensive experience in fibre planning and design, we are well-positioned to deliver reliable and efficient transport and connectivity solutions to our clients.

At Connect44 we understand the multi-faceted challenges affecting Network Operators’ transport planning an ever-evolving data centric network architecture demands.

We find solutions within the chaos of rapid demographic and geographic demand changes and technology changes that require the flexible, low cost, low latency benefits of microwave transmission but also the high capacity and high stability benefits of fibre transport solutions.

Connect44’s Microwave planning services continue to be in high demand as the requirements for fibre reach further and further into rural geographies to deliver stability for ultra-reliable-low-latency-communications (URLLC) solutions.

Whether you require on-premises Fibre connectivity or national fibre to any viable location (FTTx), passive or active; Connect44 has a broad range of experience in Planning, Design, Delivery and Operational Management of thousands of FTTx connections. Our experienced team of consultants, planners and designers provide an end-to-end proposition to ensure expert guidance and support from feasibility to operation and monitoring, in our state-of-the-art Network Operations Centres in Romania, Spain and the UK.

From feasibility study to Strategic Plan, our experts will guide you through the critical investment decisions to make the right choices for your fibre strategy, be it plan, build, manage or all of the above.

We support every step of your journey, or turnkey deliver, from the decision on the best selection of technology for your best outcome, through high level and low-level design, capacity management, budget management, budget optimisation, acquisition and easements, physical route delivery, installation, activation, system wide testing, transfer to operation and network management.

Connect44 provide an end-to-end portfolio of fibre services, from feasibility to on-premises acceptance. We know fibre planning; we have completed thousands of FTTx planning activities (tens of thousands by the mid-2020s) for legacy and new fibre network delivery; survey; application; dig and plant installation; street furniture, to the stage of infrastructure ready for fibre pulling.

Connect44 completes existing plant QA and asset management audits, plan fibre capacities, nodes, repeaters, splitters, splicing points, street-ODFs, through to on-premises termination.

Our operatives are trained and certified in common tools and programs such as Megaplan and QGIS. We have a strong team, who together have more than 10 years of experience in fibre planning, we will implement your projects efficiently and accurately.