FWA capacity planning: subscribers per cell, traffic profiles

Capacity Planning Fundamentals

FWA capacity planning determines how many broadband subscribers a single cell sector can support while maintaining acceptable service quality. Unlike mobile users who generate bursty traffic, FWA subscribers behave like wireline broadband customers with sustained high-throughput demands including video streaming, gaming, and file downloads. A typical 100 MHz channel at 3.5 GHz delivers approximately one gigabit per second peak sector throughput. With average busy-hour utilization of thirty to forty percent per subscriber, operators can serve fifty to one hundred FWA homes per sector depending…