Vodafone

11,000 transceivers re-parented without any major outages and minimal customer impact? Sure we can.

This was the challenge faced Kordia’s Technology and Engineering Services team. The team, headed by David Sheppard, completed the project ahead of schedule in May 2008 and, it was implemented across Australia’s Vodafone GSM network.

This work was part Vodafone’s Xelerate project. It was driven by the reduction of existing Base Station Controllers (BSC) to new Ericsson Mega BSCs and modernise its network.

 “With national presence in every major capital city, our Switch team covered every factor from planning and design to implementation of both data fill and physical changes,” explains Sheppard.

“This continuity of knowledge and local presence helps eliminate potential risks such as database mismatches with physical equipment. It also ensures consistency, meaning a project of this size can be delivered quickly at a competitive cost with less risk.”

The Switch team was also supported by a strongly committed RF Engineering team. They also provided network performance drive tests during off-peak hours to ensure any possible faults were identified before causing any issues or inconvenience to customers.

This Kordia team is also regionally located alongside the switch team, providing both effective communication between teams and the ability to check the RF network both in the field and via Performance monitoring.

The project included planning and design as well as provisioning, pre-implementation, implementation and post-cutover activities. These are all delicate tasks that were done over a live network with minimal customer impact.  Once again, Kordia exceeded the expectations of all involved.