Principal-Led Infrastructure Advisory

Critical Infrastructure Changes. Accountability Doesn't.

For utilities, transportation authorities, health systems, and industrial operators taking ownership of infrastructure they did not build.

We are called in when a vendor is exiting, a cutover date is fixed, or leadership needs an independent answer to one question: are we actually ready to operate this?

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Leadership experience includes roles at:

AT&T · Verizon · Cisco · Nokia · Ericsson

Lanver engagements are staffed by senior practitioners who have designed, operated, and transitioned large-scale network and infrastructure environments.

Why executives call us

You are probably here because one of these is true.

A vendor is exiting and your team has to run what they built.

A cutover date is fixed and nobody will say out loud whether you are ready.

The program is hitting milestones but operations is not getting more capable.

You need an independent read before you sign acceptance.

Your people are strong, but this particular transition is new to all of them.

A board or regulator is asking a readiness question you cannot answer yet.

If two or more are true, thirty minutes is worth your time.

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OWNERSHIP

Ownership & Transition Advisory

The vendor's finish line is not your starting line.

Vendor-to-owner transitions, managed service exits, and operational handoffs. We define who owns what on day one, name the skills your team is missing, and surface what breaks if the vendor walks on schedule.

Outcome: Operational responsibility transfers without a gap.

Operations

Mission-Critical Infrastructure Advisory

Deployable and operable are two different tests.

Independent engineering and operations guidance across private wireless, broadband, transport, and utility communications. We evaluate how the design behaves at 2 a.m. with your staffing, not the vendor's.

Outcome: Infrastructure your own team can run.

GOVERNANCE

Execution Assurance & Governance

Green status reports do not survive a cutover.

We install the accountability structure around a program: decision rights, escalation paths, acceptance criteria, and reporting that reaches executives early enough to act on.

Outcome: Executives see problems while there is still time to fix them.

Risk

Infrastructure Risk & Independent Assessment

Know what is ready, what is not, and what the gap will cost.

A structured independent assessment of operational capability, governance, vendor dependency, and transition readiness. Delivered before acceptance or cutover, while you still have leverage.

Outcome: Decisions made before consequences become irreversible.

Field notes

What we find when we look.

Networks that pass acceptance and were never tuned

Across multiple live systems we have found vendor defaults running end to end, with key thresholds sitting at the bottom of their range and offsets set so nothing ever fires. Every feature reads as enabled in the configuration. None of them could actually trigger. Devices were reaching the right band by luck rather than by design. This is not rare. It is what happens when the acceptance criteria are written by the party being tested.

Fleet migrations that work for ninety-five percent

Device fleet migrations, including network identity and credential changes, fail on validation and sequencing rather than on technology. The failure mode is not that it does not work. It is that it works for most of the fleet, and you are left sending crews to touch the rest by hand in the field.

Client names and identifying details omitted by design. We will walk through specifics under NDA.

About the Firm

We help organizations become capable owners of critical infrastructure.

Lanver Group is a critical infrastructure advisory firm built for high-consequence network and operational transitions. Every engagement is led by a principal and staffed only by people who have operated infrastructure at scale. You get the person you met, backed by practitioners who have run these transitions before. No analysts learning on your program.

Craig Rochester founded the practice after three decades in network engineering and operations leadership, including regional accountability for RAN, core, and transport across two AT&T regions and the wireless engineering organization at GCI. Lanver Group is the continuation of Summit IoT under a new name, carrying the same leadership, the same team, and the same delivery record into a broader critical infrastructure scope.

3,000+

Sites and core elements transitioned

16

Major network cutovers and core migrations led

$2B+

Infrastructure program value advised, designed, and transitioned

Every major infrastructure transition starts with one conversation.

Thirty minutes, principal to principal. Tell us what you are navigating and we will tell you whether we can help and what we would look at first. No deck, no junior staff.

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Prefer email? Reach the principal directly at craig.rochester@lanvergroup.com