Local & Private Networks: From Regional Rollouts to Mission-Critical Applications

Fixed Wireless Access reaching rural and suburban homes. IoT networks covering a region’s meters and sensors. 5G Railway corridors running the length of a railway line. Private 4G/5G, Wi-Fi and IIoT networks inside ports, campuses, stations, plants and cities.

These deployments look nothing alike, yet they share one constraint: service coverage availability and network capacity have to be proven before the first antenna goes up. Whether the design spans hundreds of kilometres or a single site, Siradel brings three things to the table: radio planning software built on calibrated 3D propagation models, our own 2D/3D geodata, and a design team that has been engineering wireless networks for three decades.

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Challenges

Private networks: as many challenges as projects

Local and private networks cover very different realities: a WISP’s rural cell edge, a utility’s regional sensor fleet, a 300 km rail corridor, a port’s mixed indoor and outdoor site. Each comes with its own scale, its own link budget, its own reliability bar.

FWA: get more homes connected from every site

How many homes can a site really serve at the promised speed? In rural and suburban areas, the answer depends on terrain, trees and buildings, and generic models can’t capture them. Planner uses high-resolution geodata and accurate propagation modelling to predict real coverage home by home. That helps you choose the right sites and build a stronger business case for subsidy programmes and new spectrum.

Large-Scale IoT & Utilities Networks : best coverage, fewer gateways

Smart metering, smart grid, water and public lighting networks must reach devices from dense city centres to rural fringes, often in basements and technical cabinets. We model the link budget on real terrain and clutter at regional and national scale, so you minimize gateway count without giving up reliability ; as critical-infrastructure modernization pushes utilities to cover an entire territory on a limited budget.

Mission-Critical Networks

Built for networks where failure is not an option ; public safety, utility control, transport signalling ; with railway as the clearest case: migrating from GSM-R to 5G Railway Communication (FRMCS) means guaranteeing coverage across hundreds of kilometres of track, through cuttings, tunnels and changing terrain, at high speed, with interference kept under control.

Private 4G/5G, Wi-Fi & IIoT in Constrained Environments

Plants, campuses, ports and stations: multi-building layouts, metal structures, moving vehicles and mixed indoor/outdoor service areas make standard propagation assumptions unreliable. Our models capture real diffraction and scattering, so integrators can determine the number of antennas, demonstrate QoS and firm up CAPEX with confidence ; and win the tender on a design that holds up on site.

Network operators, system integrators, equipment vendors, towercos densifying or monetizing a site portfolio: the role changes, the requirement does not. Model the real environment before committing to a design. Most of our customers combine the three: the software, the geodata underneath it, and our design team when the project calls for dedicated RF expertise.

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Siradel Planner is the radio planning software used across every deployment above: pre-calibrated 3D propagation models, no tuning required, automatic site selection and cell optimization, sub-6 GHz to mmWave, available with worldwide geodata, in SaaS or Desktop deployment.

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Our contribution

How does Siradel contribute to your network design project?

We adapt to your team and your project. Some clients license Siradel Planner and run their radio planning in-house; others hand us the design study end to end. Many sit somewhere in between, using our software, our 2D/3D geodata or our RF engineers wherever it makes their network design faster and more reliable.

System Integrators & Consulting firms

You design and deliver private networks for your own end customers. Use Siradel Planner and our 3D geodata to produce pre-sales coverage studies, determine the number of antennas, calculate link budgets and back your deployment proposals with design results and QoS commitments you can stand behind.

Local MNOs & Industry 4.0 players

You design, deploy and operate your own 4G/5G, Wi-Fi or IoT network. Plan coverage and capacity before rollout, then keep tuning radio parameters ; antenna placement, tilt, power ; in full autonomy as your sites and traffic evolve.

Our private network solutions

The solutions behind your local network design

What we use to design your private network, whatever the environment: calibrated 3D propagation models, our own geodata, and three decades of RF expertise.