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WiMAX20/20,
LLC Announces WiROI™ 2.0 Business Case Tool
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WiMAX20/20, LLC
September 29, 2008
New Version Provides Side-By-Side Vendor and Technology Comparison
and Models VoIP, VOD and IPTV Services.
Cornwall on Hudson, NY -- WiMAX20/20, LLC (www.wimax2020.com), a leader
in WiMAX™ broadband wireless consulting, today announced availability of
Version 2.0 of their WiROI™ Business Case Tool. Since the initial launch
of the WiROI Tool last year, it has been used by network operators and
equipment manufacturers around the world to develop comprehensive
business cases, understand their financial requirements, and build a
detailed 10 year income statement to gain funding from demanding
financiers. Guided by customer feedback from over 25 deployed WiMAX
projects, the upgrades to the WiROI Tool include an expanded
dashboard-style Graphical User Interface (GUI), side-by-side vendor and
technology comparison capabilities and enhancements, and the ability to
model services such as VoIP, VOD and IPTV. |
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“The challenge of securing financing in
the current environment requires operators to use a tool like WiROI to
build a bankable business case and get funded. The new GUI with its
improved analysis features and its capability to model advanced
services, enhances an operators ability to analyze their business and
show the full financial potential of their deployment plan.” says
Randall Schwartz, Principal at WiMAX 20/20, LLC.
The WiROI Business Case Tool was the first to provide network operators
and equipment manufacturers with a comprehensive analysis of the capital
and operational expenses for deploying a WiMAX network. Developed
through extensive industry experience with actual network deployments on
5 continents, the WiROI Tool has the flexibility to accurately model a
variety of deployment plans and service offerings. The WiROI Tool allows
network operators to customize a business case analysis for their target
market and has been used in both developing and developed markets, in
small and large multi-city deployments, for rural, urban, and
combination networks. Equipment manufacturers have also used WiROI as a
marketing tool to show the tangible financial value-added benefits of
using their equipment in an operator’s deployment plans.
“We have been using the WiROI Tool for several months as a critical
piece of our business case analysis process,” said Magnus Johansson,
Director of Broadband of Digicel in Jamaica. ”With WiROI, we’ve gained
confidence in the financial outputs and operational modeling of our
planned WiMAX networks and have analyzed various deployment scenarios
with ease.”
“We find the sensitivity analysis capability of the WiROI Tool
particularly unique and useful,” explained Berge Ayvazian, Chief
Strategy Officer at the Yankee Group. “The WiROI Tool offers the ability
to accurately model a WiMAX network and allows the user to visualize the
financial impact of a variety of parameters and should be viewed as an
invaluable tool to anyone deploying or designing a WiMAX network.”
“As an equipment vendor, we have found WiROI an effective tool to
clearly demonstrate the potential return on investment for various WiMAX
deployment scenarios,” said Kevin Suitor, VP of Marketing at Redline
Communications. “Using the WiROI Tool, we are able to model a
Redline-based access network and compare it with a traditional
implementation. The tool has allowed us to clearly articulate the
benefits of our technology not only to our customers, but also to our
channel partners.”
The WiROI Business Case Tool accepts a wide range of market data,
technical parameters, and financial and service planning inputs that can
be tailored to a particular geography. The new WiROI 2.0 Tool now allows
an operator to do side-by-side comparisons of up to five vendors in the
access and core network, providing in depth analysis of the capital
expense requirements. The WiROI Tool can simulate a WiMAX network
deployment and operation using a variety of service plans and produces a
detailed 10 year income statement, financial output graphs, and key
financial metrics.
The WiROI Business Case Tool supports over 280 input variables, allowing
operators to customize the model for their own particular market
deployment, services strategy, and financial constraints. The assumption
inputs for a model cover all critical aspects that an operator must
consider, including Market Data, Access Network Systems Parameters,
Financials, Network Deployment and Operating Expenses, Service
Assumptions, Marketing Assumptions, and Customer Premise Equipment.
The WiROI Tool can produce real-time sensitivity analysis based on
certain input parameters for a particular deployment. The WiROI
dashboard-style GUI incorporates animated selectors, sliders and
buttons, allowing the user to vary key input parameters and visualize
the output immediately in a variety of animated financial output charts.
Network operators and equipment manufacturers can quickly and easily
visualize and understand the critical issues that could affect their
deployment or development plans. The tool includes the ability to
estimate the number of cell sites and various options for selecting a
WiMAX network infrastructure required to support specific coverage and
capacity requirements. The user can also select from a variety of core
networks, access networks, base stations, and backhaul options. The
WiROI Tool provides answers to a variety of “what if” scenarios to help
identify the most important variables influencing specific WiMAX
business plans. In conjunction with consulting services from WiMAX
20/20, the new WiROI 2.0 Business Case Analysis Tool can be a critical
component for an operator planning a network deployment, an equipment
manufacturer demonstrating product benefits, or an investor interested
in evaluating a network investment.
A free online demonstration of the WiROI Business Case Tool can be test
driven at the WiMAX 20/20 website www.wimax2020.com. The WiROI Tool will
be featured at WiMAX World 2008 during the “Business Planning Workshop:
Latin America and the Caribbean” on Tuesday, September 30th starting at
3:00PM.
A free online demonstration of the WiROI™ Business Case Tool can be test
driven at the WiMAX20/20 website www.wimax2020.com
About WiMAX20/20, LLC
WiMAX 20/20 is an independent market research and consulting company
focused solely on the emerging broadband wireless market. The principals
have been engaged in the WiMAX industry since its inception and have
gained a thorough understanding of the technical, business and product
issues surrounding the development of WiMAX devices, equipments,
networks, and services. For more information please visit
www.wimax2020.com. |
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