Abstract: Disclosed are methods for determining a bill-of-materials for wireless networks based either on a selected target sales market or current inventory of wireless equipment. The methods involve defining a set of useful equipment features; defining feature groups which are subsets of the set of equipment features; obtaining representative location information describing construction characteristics of locations for the wireless network; defining location categories, where each of the location categories is representative of locations with similar construction characteristics based on the representative location information; and determining the wireless equipment to be included in a bill-of-materials for constructing the wireless communications network for the location categories based upon the similar construction characteristics and the feature group.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods for determining a bill-of-materials for wireless networks based either on a selected target sales market or current inventory of wireless equipment. The methods involve defining a set of useful equipment features; defining feature groups which are subsets of the set of equipment features; obtaining representative location information describing construction characteristics of locations for the wireless network; defining location categories, where each of the location categories is representative of locations with similar construction characteristics based on the representative location information; and determining the wireless equipment to be included in a bill-of-materials for constructing the wireless communications network for the location categories based upon the similar construction characteristics and the feature group.