MEGAPHAT METRO® - FIXED WIRELESS LINK PLANNING
Megaphat Metro® is a web-based wireless network engineering and deployment platform designed for professional installation companies, WISPs, integrators, and network operators. The platform combines RF analysis, GIS intelligence, terrain modeling, building data, project management, virtual site surveying, and deployment documentation into a single cloud-accessible workflow. Rather than relying on multiple third-party engineering firms, GIS specialists, survey companies, and field teams, organizations can perform much of the planning and analysis process within a single system.
The platform is built around a customer-centric workflow. Users create customers, define candidate sites, establish wireless links between sites, and organize those links into projects. Sites may represent individual buildings or multiple candidate installation locations on the same structure, allowing engineers to model real-world rooftop deployment scenarios. Megaphat Metro® automatically incorporates terrain data and available building intelligence to assist in determining antenna locations, elevations, and potential line-of-sight opportunities.
At the engineering layer, Megaphat Metro® performs wireless link analysis including free-space path loss calculations, Fresnel zone calculations, RSSI budgeting, fade margin analysis, elevation profiling, antenna alignment calculations, obstruction analysis, and radio-specific performance modeling. Engineers can evaluate links using both terrain and building datasets, helping determine whether a proposed path is viable before committing resources to deployment.
A major component of the platform is its GIS integration. Megaphat Metro® combines mapping information with public, municipal, and proprietary datasets to build a richer understanding of the deployment environment. Building heights, structure information, ground elevations, and obstruction data can be incorporated into the planning process, reducing the need for engineers to gather information from multiple systems manually.
The platform also serves as a virtual site survey tool. Detailed KML exports allow wireless networks, sites, links, and building polygons to be visualized in environments such as Google Earth and ArcGIS. These exports help engineers, installers, project managers, and customers review proposed deployments in a three-dimensional environment before any equipment is installed. In many cases, this can reduce the need for physical site surveys, drone surveys, and other costly preliminary investigations.
Once a design has been approved, Megaphat Metro® generates deployment information for installation teams, including site coordinates, AMSL elevations, antenna heights, headings, elevation angles, and radio-specific details. This provides field personnel with the information required to locate mounting positions, align radios, and verify installations with minimal engineering involvement.
Megaphat Metro® is fundamentally a deployment acceleration platform. Its purpose is not merely to calculate wireless links, but to reduce the time, cost, and external dependencies traditionally associated with GIS analysis, RF engineering, virtual surveying, and wireless network deployment.
Currently Megaphat Metro® is in Beta and only available to beta participants. You can request beta access by completing our beta access form here.
