Dipl.-Ing. Richard Schumacher-Piller

Festnetzplanung für Mobilfunkstationen mithilfe des Tools Carmer. Support bei Glasfaserprojekten. ´Dokumentation mit Megaplan. Support bei strategischen Festnetzplanung. VBA Toolentwickung.

• Technical and financial evaluation of MSC servers, media gateways, and the related Core Networks. • Support of owned and partner operating companies in preparing and evaluating requests for proposal. • Support of future planning and optimization. • Development of global standard configurations. • Assessment and transfer of technical trends • Cost-Benefit assessment of Virtualisation and Cloud for the Circuit Switched Network. • Driving the 'Circuit Switched over cloud "approach.

• Create a model for the cost analysis of Access transmission, back-haul and Core transmission networks. • Development of software to dimension, optimize and draw a budget of radio access networks of cellular networks. • Promote the installation of Microwave based Access networks and support of the national operating companies in related projects. • Assessment of Access networks of other national Telecom operators in the context of acquisition projects.

• Initiation, design and planning of a cost-effective ATM transport network for UMTS. • Vendor selection and support in the type acceptance tests and the roll-out. • Optimization of the packet data transmission network of the core and the access network. • Initiate and lead a forum of the European Vodafone operating companies. • Cost-Benefit analysis of the migration of ATM based core data network to an IP/MPLS-based network structure.

• Market observation and selection of network nodes (DXC). • Assisting in planning and implementation in the regional branches. • Development and introduction of 300 small DXCs. • Support of type acceptances of hardware and software. • Topology optimization of the of the access transmission network

Head of the Department materials administration and logistics