Service · Design

Private 5G & LTE Design

A standalone cellular network you operate, on spectrum that fits your site. Designed from coverage and density requirements first; vendor and architecture second.

  • Typical scope 4–10 weeks
  • Engagement Fixed-fee design package
  • Vendors Cisco, Nokia, Ericsson, Celona, Athonet
What it is

A private cellular network engineered around the site, not the brochure.

Private 5G/LTE replaces or supplements Wi-Fi where the workload demands deterministic coverage — AGVs that can't drop, push-to-talk on factory floors, video offload from mobile cameras, AR-assisted maintenance, anything that moves through metal.

Our design work covers spectrum strategy (CBRS GAA/PAL, C-band, licensed assist), radio planning against a real building model, RAN and core selection, integration with your identity and security stack, and an acceptance test plan that lives past go-live.

When you need it

Signals you're past Wi-Fi.

  • Mission-critical applications failing on Wi-Fi roaming or co-channel interference.
  • AGV, AMR, or mobile robotic fleets requiring deterministic uplink.
  • High-bay, outdoor, or hazardous environments where AP density is impractical.
  • Push-to-talk and voice traffic with carrier-grade reliability requirements.
  • Operational segregation from the corporate network for safety or compliance.
Our methodology

Five phases. No surprises.

01
Requirements & constraints

Coverage, density, throughput, latency, devices in scope, regulatory constraints. We work from your operational SLAs back into RF.

02
Spectrum strategy

Which band, which authorization model, and where the boundaries lie with existing public-cellular and Wi-Fi.

03
Radio & site design

Predictive modeling against a digital twin of the building, validated with on-site walk testing. Antenna selection and siting.

04
Architecture & vendor selection

RAN/Core decisions, identity integration, transport, security posture. We disqualify what doesn't fit and explain why.

05
Acceptance & handoff

Test plan the integrator must satisfy, plus runbooks for your operations team. We can run the validation ourselves.

Deliverables

What you receive.

  • Radio plan
    Per-radio placement and orientation, antenna selection, predicted coverage and capacity heatmaps against the building model.
  • BoM & architecture diagram
    Vendor-agnostic until selection, fully specified after. Network, security, and identity touchpoints called out.
  • Integration specification
    What the SI must build to meet the design. Avoids the "well that's not what I quoted" problem.
  • Acceptance test plan
    Procedures and pass/fail criteria the integrator must meet for sign-off. Drone, scanner, and voice scenarios as relevant.
  • Total cost of ownership model
    5-year view including spectrum, RAN/Core, transport, support, and the realistic ops headcount delta.
Representative outcomes

What the network does when it's done.

99.95%
Session reliability on AGV uplink
<20 ms
Application-layer latency target
−60%
AP density vs. comparable Wi-Fi design
CORE / 5GC RAN · gNB·1 RAN · gNB·2 DEVICES
Architecture · Private 5G/LTE — typical single-site

Talk to us about a site

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Related case study

A 3PL took 14% scanner drops to 0.3%.

A midwest 3PL was losing 90+ minutes of pick-pack time daily to scanner reconnects. We designed a private LTE overlay that ran beside the existing Wi-Fi for three weeks, validated under live load, and cut over.

Read the case study
Layout · Two-radio CBRS overlay across high-bay floor

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