The Wifirst deployment factory

Three-phase project management: Think, Build & Run

In the course of our many large-scale LAN/WiFi and WAN projects, we have always applied the same rigor to the deployment phase, as this directly conditions the operability of the service, and ultimately its quality and customer satisfaction. Wifirst's ability to carry out large-scale deployments is based on several key success factors.

A scalable structure to cover many countries

Wifirst has maintained unrivalled flexibility and agility, thanks to its responsive structure and unique specialization in the WiFi operator business. This enables us to adapt our approach to the specific context of each customer, whether deploying an independent establishment or a fleet of several thousand sites.

This structure is supported in particular by human resources:

• project management centralized around a team of qualified and experienced telecom project managers (a dedicated project manager is assigned to each new site)
• an in-house team of several dozen WiFi-architects to carry out detailed technical studies prior to deployment
• on-site installations carried out by a network of service providers trained and certified by our technical teams (over 400 partner integrator technicians).

Adapted tools and procedures to industrialize deployment

Wifirst's teams have the technical resources needed to easily orchestrate the various components inherent in a deployment project (interactions with the customer, organization of interventions, equipment management, etc.):

• A tailor-made project management tool, Wifirst Déploiement, to break down and track each stage of the project.
• Audin, a tool for carrying out pre-visits and WiFi coverage studies, developed to compensate for the shortcomings of existing tools and directly connected to our information system.
• A logistics platform to stock all the equipment required for deployment, sized to meet high volumes and precise deadlines.

The industrialization of our deployment processes and tools contributes directly to the success of our customers' projects, by optimizing the quality of installations and meeting deadlines, in a spirit of transparent communication.