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LCC International has announced the commercial availability of WiView, a comprehensive business planning and dimensioning tool designed to evaluate and estimate the infrastructure requirements and resulting capital and operational expenditures for designing a WiMAX broadband network.

WiView is the first to be commercialized in a series of business planning, optimization, and performance tools designed by LCC's research and development group. It is the first dimensioning tool on the market dedicated to analyzing WiMAX technology.

WiView's proprietary analysis methodologies and dimensioning tools can be used in conjunction with services provided by LCC's team of highly regarded broadband network planning consultants. LCC launched WiView to provide its clients (wireless operators, mobile content companies, equipment manufacturers and financial analysts) a comprehensive business planning and analysis tool to thoroughly understand the economics of delivering WiMAX services.

WiView is a web-based tool that dimensions a network for various WiMAX deployment scenarios and also provides business case analysis. It can be used to analyze the dynamics of fixed or mobile WiMAX deployments, and can support greenfield and overlay scenarios.

Inputs and results are segmented in various morphological areas, such as heavy urban, urban, suburban and rural. Inputs to the tool are assumptions categorized as marketing (coverage footprint, subscriber counts and usage), technical (spectrum, channel bandwidth, link-budget and WiMAX-specific inputs), and financial (CapEx, OpEx, etc.).

Results include network components such as site counts, spectrum requirements, CapEx and OpEx-based results, as well as financial information including EBITDA, NPV, etc. WiView can be used to perform advanced sensitivity analysis such as "what-if" deployment scenarios, analyze effects of implementing various subscriber usage models, determine spectrum requirements or check effects of spectrum constraints, calculate the minimum number of sites required, and performs several other types of technical and business analyses.