CalaNETWORKS

Empowering business connectivity with expert 5G solutions

Assessment, design, deployment, and security consulting for enterprise wireless programs.

5G Network Assessment

A structured review of the infrastructure you have today, and a clear path to 5G that matches how the business actually runs.

We start with the live network: spectrum, backhaul, radio assets, core dependencies, and the applications that depend on them. The goal is not a generic 5G readiness score. It is a picture of what will constrain performance, cost, and risk if you move too early or too late.

Findings are written for both technical and commercial readers. You get an inventory of what is already usable, what must be upgraded, and what can wait. Recommendations are sequenced so capital and operations can move together.

What we examine

  • Radio, transport, and core topology against current and planned load
  • Coverage, capacity, and interference in the sites that matter most
  • Device, SIM, and identity posture for private or hybrid 5G
  • Vendor lock-in, license terms, and operational ownership

What you receive

  • A written assessment with gaps ranked by impact
  • Architecture options with trade-offs, not a single vendor pitch
  • A phased integration plan with dependencies called out
  • A briefing you can take to IT, facilities, and leadership

Wireless Network Design

Custom planning for wireless networks that fit the building, the workflow, and the growth you already know is coming.

Design work sits between assessment and build. We translate requirements into a radio and transport plan that can be procured, installed, and operated without rewriting the brief halfway through.

Enterprise wireless is rarely a single technology. Wi-Fi, private 5G, DAS, and backhaul often share the same floors, the same fiber, and the same security boundary. The design accounts for that overlap so the network behaves as one system.

Planning inputs

  • Floor plans, site surveys, and RF constraints
  • Application SLAs: latency, throughput, mobility, and failover
  • User density, device mix, and shift patterns
  • Power, fiber, and rack space that already exist

Design outputs

  • Coverage and capacity model with predicted performance
  • Bill of materials and vendor-neutral equipment notes
  • Handover, roaming, and segmentation rules
  • A build package installers and internal teams can follow

5G Deployment and Integration

Bring 5G into production without stranding the networks you already operate.

Deployment is where architecture meets change control. We coordinate radio install, core or gateway integration, identity, and cutover so existing services stay available while new ones come online.

Integration covers the pieces that sit around the RAN: authentication, policy, monitoring, and the applications that will actually use the air interface. Acceptance is based on measured performance against the design, not a completed punch list alone.

On site and in the core

  • Install coordination with facilities, IT, and radio partners
  • Core, MEC, or gateway integration to the existing estate
  • SIM, certificate, and policy onboarding
  • Staged cutover with rollback paths

Handover

  • As-built documentation and configuration baselines
  • Performance tests against the agreed design targets
  • Operations runbooks for the teams who own the network
  • A support path after go-live, including 24/7 coverage when required

Network Security Consulting

Assessments and controls that protect wireless communications without blocking the work the network is there to do.

Wireless expands the attack surface: air interface, devices, identity, and the path back into the enterprise. We review that path as one system, from RF exposure through to the applications and data that ride on it.

Recommendations are practical. Segmentation, encryption, certificate hygiene, and monitoring are sized to the environment you run, not to a lab diagram. The output is a control set your teams can implement and audit.

Review scope

  • Air-interface and rogue-infrastructure exposure
  • SIM, certificate, and identity lifecycle
  • Segmentation between OT, guest, corporate, and partner traffic
  • Logging, detection, and incident paths for wireless events

Outcomes

  • A risk register tied to real network paths
  • Control recommendations mapped to existing tools where possible
  • Hardening guidance for RAN, core, and edge
  • A briefing suitable for security, network, and executive owners

How we work

One engagement model across assessment, design, deployment, and security. Each phase produces a document the next phase can use.

Discover

Scope the sites, applications, and constraints. Align technical and commercial owners before design starts.

Specify

Turn findings into an architecture, a bill of materials, and a sequence that procurement and operations can execute.

Deliver

Integrate, test, and hand over. Stay through cutover so the network matches the design on the floor, not only on paper.

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