Planning the operations of the San Diego PCS trial network

With ever increased mobility in our dynamic society, the need for a low power portable handset and cost-effective access to a wide array of telecommunication network services has been recognized. A successfully deployed personal communication services (PCS) network will not only provide access to today's wire-line network services but also manage customer mobility seamlessly and transparently. In order to test this hypothesis and assess the capabilities of the state-of-the-art network technologies, a PCS technology trial network was established during the first half of 1993. The paper discusses the planning required and insights gained during the design, integration testing, establishing provisioning and fault isolation procedures phases of this multifaceted project.<>