MetroNetIQ Vendor Directory: Consultants


Pre-MetroNet Service Providers
Getting Ready for a MetroNet

Consultants
Planning, procurement, and network design services

MetroNetIQ MetroNetIQ, producer of this website, specializes in early stage clients seeking to get the ball rolling on their network project. Vendors in the metropolitan broadband industry contract with MetroNetIQ for its insights, experience and industry connections. Public sector clients seek out MetroNetIQ primarily when they are considering a metropolitan broadaband network, for preliminary assessments, help in getting started, and rfor egional collaboration consulting. MetroNetIQ has extensive industry relationships and can work throughout the network planning and deployment process with clients on both sides of the equation, interfacing with all of the vendors listed in this vendor directory, as well as with government clients of all shapes and sizes. Contact John Cooper for more information. See also John Cooper CV as well as MetroNetIQ Client References for more information.

Baller Herbst Law Firm Jim Baller founded this firm in Washington, D.C., long before most considered municipal broadband as a field. In addition to being a "pundit" and luminary in this new field, Jim has also been deeply involved in the federal policy debate over the last decade, in nearly all of the key state fights and court cases, and in a high percentage of the leading public communications projects. Jim's firm is a resource for either legal advice or project consulting, and they represent the American Public Power Association (APPA), so if your city has its own municipal utility, you should know Jim. Contact Jim Baller for more information.

Business Information Group (BIG) is a leading Wireless Integration, Security, and Virtual Communications technology firm based in York, Pennsylvania. BIG supports one of the country's largest certified, high-speed wireless, data & VoIP community broadband networks. BIG reaches over 400,000 square miles of wireless network design and installation. Contact Scott Dolmetsch for more information.

Broadband Horizons, is a Central Texas-based solutions integrator with a focus on both Broadband Over Power Lines (BPL) and Wireless Networks. Focused on working with medium and small municipally-owned utiltiies, Broadband Horizons appears positioned to bring a full solution to Rural America. Contact Bobby Mack for more information.

Civitium is the consultant on many of the RFPs for new metropolitan wireless deployments, including the City of Philadelphia. Following early work in Houston County, Georgia, and other deployments in 2004, Civitum has rapidly become one of the leading municipal wireless consultants in this new industry. Be sure to download Civitium's Cookbook: "Wireless Broadband: The Foundation for Digital Cities" off of the www.muniwireless.com website. Contact Greg Richardson for more information.

Excelsio Communications is an Atlanta, GA-based firm that provides nationwide wireless broadband consulting, engineering and network deployment services to municipalities, ISPs, utilities, cable operators and telephone companies that desire to deploy mobile and fixed wireless broadband networks. Excelsio helps customers with its planning tools including demographic and density site planning, RFP development and management, cell site acquisition, network financial modeling, RF network design and testing, technology assessment as well as network installation services. Clients include HP, Time Warner Cable and the City of Grand Rapids among others. Contact Karl Edwards for more information.

EZ Wireless deployed the network that covers much of Eastern Oregon, profiled in the NY Times editorial page. Focused on providing high-speed mobile data for emergency management, industries and communities, EZ Wireless engineers, builds and supports the operation of the wireless network, as well as provides applications to take full advantage of wireless mobility. According to their website, their team of professionals have designed wireless networks all over the world and their engineers have unmatched experience in designing, deploying, maintaining and expanding wireless networks that span cities, counties, and states. With their regional network, they have demonstrated their ability to overcome the technical and political challenges associated with building region-wide wireless networks for public safety and other applications. Contact Fred Ziari for more information.

NetLogix Wtih extensive hands-on experience in building carrier class broadband wireless networks, NetLogix can provide their clients with a unique expertise that would otherwise take years of trial and error to accomplish. They provide complete lifecycle management of wireless network initiatives. Their soup-to-nuts approach includes any combination of Strategic Corporate & Business Development; Technology Consulting & Assessment; Network Architecture & Planning; Physical Network Deployment; Data & IP Engineering; Support System Planning; Ongoing Network Management; and Field Maintenance. NetLogix provides wireless network services to a variety of vertical markets, dividing their services into three categories: carriers and service providers; public safety and municpal private networks; community Wi Fi Hot Zones; and enterprise WANs. Contact Eric Daversa for more information.

PCC Network Solutions is a west coast wireless integrator (recently changed their name from Pacific Coast Cabling). PCC Network Solutions provides network consulting to cities and enterprises looking to install a wireless network. With their background in cabling and enterprise work, PCC Network Solutions places special emphasis on integration of applications onto the wireless network. Call Richard Harris at 800-313-1911 for more information.

Redmoon Broadband is a Plano, Texas, firm with significant experience deploying mesh systems and with a speciality in Public Safety applications. This is a regional systems integrator and metropolitan wireless broadband network consultant, focusing on Texas and the Southwest. Call Bryan Thompson at 972-599-3900 for more information.

WFI - Perhaps one of the most experienced national wireless network design, deployment and management firms, WFI cut its teeth building the cellular networks. Now, it has set its sights on designing the next generation wireless networks: metropolitan wireless broadband. WFI's Wireless Network Services division offers four primary categories of services to the wireless telecommunications industry: planning and consulting, design and optimization, deployment and integration, and network management. Their end-to-end network services are supplemented with complete program management expertise to deliver robust network solutions. Contact Al Brown for more information.

PBM Networks, Inc. - Professional Broadband Mobile Networks, Inc. a State of Texas Registered Professional Engineering firm, offers strategy, business modeling, engineering, architecture, RF propagation prediction, design, system integration, program management, installation, sales and service of broadband RF access, fixed network distribution, and core network platforms for total turn-key broadband wireless network implementation and operation. We provide strategy, design, and installation for WiMax, WiFi, 3/4G PCS, LMR, and advanced messaging technologies for in-building, campus, city-wide and national, licensed and unlicensed wireless networks. Our licensed professional engineers offer expert advice, signed and sealed engineering design specifications and implementation program management of turn-key delivery of your small or large wireless networking needs.

Bell Industries Tech. Logix Group - As the largest business group of Bell Industries, Inc. (AMEX: BI), the Tech.logix Group is a middle market provider of technology lifecycle services including strategic sourcing, technology integration, and product support.

Piepenbrock Schuster Consulting AG - Piepenbrock Schuster Consulting AG was established on 1 March 2004. It was founded by partners in Piepenbrock Schuster Attorneys who, besides offering legal counsel, have for a number of years extended their activities to include advisory services in the economic and technical field - above all in the telecommunications sector, but also in other branches of the network industries.

PricewaterhouseCoopers - PricewaterhouseCoopers provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services for public and private clients primarily in four areas: corporate accountability; risk management; structuring and mergers and acquisitions; and performance and process improvement.

RFI - RFI Global Services Ltd (RFI) is a leading provider of specialist testing, approvals and product development services to the cellular, wireless, smartcard and electronics industries. With offices, facilities, partners and representation in Europe, North America and Asia, RFI supports its customers worldwide.

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