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Strategic network planning: From legacy to future-ready infrastructure

Communication service providers are expanding fiber networks, accelerating 5G deployments, and modernizing legacy infrastructure to meet growing connectivity demands. These initiatives require accurate planning, efficient resource utilization, and faster deployment while balancing investment priorities and operational complexity.

Infosys BPM delivers telecom network planning and design services that help communication service providers improve planning accuracy, optimize network investments, and accelerate infrastructure deployment. Our network planning and design approach combines domain expertise, standardized processes, and intelligent technologies to support scalable, future-ready network transformation.

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Key highlights

20+ Years of industry experience
350+ Telecom network experts
2000+ Network engineers

Why Infosys BPM for telecom network planning and design

Building future-ready communication networks requires more than engineering expertise. It demands the ability to balance network performance, deployment speed, cost optimization, and evolving customer expectations across increasingly complex technology environments.

Infosys BPM provides telecom network planning and design services that combine domain expertise, standardized delivery methodologies, GIS-enabled planning capabilities, and intelligent automation to support network modernization initiatives. Our network planning and design approach helps communication service providers improve planning accuracy, optimize infrastructure investments, reduce deployment risks, and accelerate network rollouts while maintaining operational efficiency and governance.

Whether expanding fiber infrastructure, modernizing legacy networks, or supporting next-generation technologies, Infosys BPM enables communication service providers to plan and execute network transformation with confidence.

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Industry challenges

Major industry challenges faced by communication service providers in the area of NPD include the following.

  • High turnaround time for network planning and designing
  • Inventory issues and reworks
  • Records mismatch and poor documentation
  • High cost and construction challenges
  • Multiple technologies with multiple inventories

Our approach

At Infosys BPM, we enforce business transformation by bringing together the right people, streamlined processes, and advanced technology to drive efficiency, innovation, and measurable impact.

We follow a structured, collaborative, and digital-first approach that blends industry best practices with client-specific needs to design efficient, scalable, and future-ready solutions. Key highlights of our approach include:

  • Studying the requirements of the client and enforcing industry best practices
  • Working on scope exclusions and inclusions with respect to special cases
  • Mutually agreeing on the design strategies using big bang or phased/layered model
  • Implementing a digital approach powered by AI

AI-enabled telecom network planning and design

Modern telecom network planning and design requires faster decision-making, accurate forecasting, and continuous optimization. Infosys BPM integrates intelligent automation and analytics into the planning process to improve network assessment, optimize infrastructure utilization, and identify potential deployment challenges before implementation.

AI-assisted planning enables engineering teams to evaluate multiple network scenarios, prioritize investments, reduce manual planning effort, and improve design consistency across large-scale deployments. By combining automation with domain expertise, Infosys BPM helps communication service providers accelerate planning cycles while maintaining network quality and operational control.

Telecom network planning and design offerings

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Telecom network planning and design across diverse network environments

Infosys BPM supports telecom network planning and design across a broad range of communication infrastructure projects.

Our expertise includes:

  • Fiber network planning
  • 5G network rollout planning
  • FTTH network expansion
  • Wireless access network planning
  • Transport and backhaul planning
  • Enterprise connectivity networks
  • Broadband network expansion
  • Hybrid network modernization initiatives

This flexible delivery approach enables communication service providers to plan, design, and expand networks that align with evolving customer demand and business growth strategies.

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Business benefits of telecom network planning and design services

Infosys BPM's telecom network planning and design services help communication service providers improve planning efficiency, optimize infrastructure investments, and accelerate network deployment. By combining engineering expertise with standardized delivery models and intelligent technologies, our network planning and design approach supports better operational outcomes while reducing project complexity across the network lifecycle.

Comprehensive feasibility support

Enhanced inventory record accuracy

Network planning and design precision exceeding 95%

100% document digitization and automation

Quantified benefits

  • Over 95% planning accuracy
  • Over 95% design quality
  • Over 99% standardization and centralization
  • Over 90% network optimization
  • Improved SLA & KPIs
  • Real-time inventory upkeep
  • Reduction of duplicates and non-value-adding activities
  • Over 99% compliance on legal and regulatory requirements
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Major client successes

10+ years of FTTx (Fiber to the x) network rollouts and operations for a leading telecom company based in APAC 20+ years of NPD for a leading telecom company in the USA 6+ years of NPD for a leading telecom company in Europe
  • 8.4 million home passes delivered
  • Primary design partner for 2.2 million homes
  • Improved cycle time by over 50% and reduced costs by 40%
  • Won “Supplier of the Year” award for three consecutive years
  • Delivered over 10K plan and build designs across transport, data IP, and DSL access networks
  • Implemented end-to-end workflow management tool and automation for plan, design and construction
  • Achieved over 70% cost reduction through a 100% right-shored network design factory operating model
  • End-to-end management of CIO and CTO organizations for IT delivery and network technology services
  • Acted as managing agent for construction partners across network rollout and operations
  • Served as managing agent for the client’s strategic platform and services, driving efficiency, innovation, and a 20% reduction in total cost of ownership
  • Delivered network design to modernize and optimize the cost of FTTP (fiber to the premises) networks
  • Optimized processes and automated field engineering apps, delivering 10-20% operational efficiency improvement

Challenges and solutions for telecom network planning and design

Infosys BPM helps communication service providers modernize legacy network infrastructure through end-to-end telecom network planning and design services. From feasibility assessments and network planning to engineering design and documentation support, our teams help organizations prepare their networks for fiber expansion, 5G deployment, and next-generation connectivity while improving planning efficiency and reducing deployment risks.

Infosys BPM supports a broad range of network planning and design initiatives, including fiber network expansion, FTTH deployments, wireless network planning, transport network design, GIS-based network planning, documentation digitization, and network engineering support. Our flexible delivery model enables communication service providers to execute projects of varying complexity while maintaining quality and operational consistency.

Accurate planning is critical to avoiding costly redesigns and deployment delays. Infosys BPM applies standardized engineering processes, digital planning tools, GIS-enabled workflows, and quality assurance practices to improve planning accuracy throughout the telecom network planning and design lifecycle. This helps communication service providers optimize network investments, reduce engineering rework, and accelerate rollout timelines.

Yes. Infosys BPM provides scalable telecom network planning and design services that support both regional deployments and large multi-market infrastructure programs. Our global delivery model enables organizations to expand engineering capacity quickly while maintaining consistent planning standards, project governance, and delivery quality across multiple network transformation initiatives.

Infosys BPM streamlines network planning and design through standardized engineering workflows, parallel execution models, documentation digitization, and technology-enabled planning processes. By improving coordination across planning, design, and engineering teams, we help communication service providers reduce project delays, improve resource utilization, and accelerate network deployment without compromising design quality.

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