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FACING A NEW WORLD
TELCOS WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH PROFOUND TRANSFORMATION
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CSP TRANSFORMATION: DIFFICULT CHOICES
Neither an easy nor a linear set of requirements but a complex and iterative process that requires
careful consideration and cooperation with customers, partners, and employees.
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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION JOURNEY
CRITICAL CONSIDERATIONS ACROSS FUNCTIONS
Sequential digital transformation activities Parallel digital transformation activities
ORGANISATIONAL PORTFOLIO INNOVATION DIGITAL CUSTOMER CULTURAL
VISION & GOALS MODELS ENGAGEMENT TRANSFORMATION
MODELS STRATEGY
▪ Revenue ▪ Ringfence ▪ Diversify ▪ Incubation ▪ Sales ▪ Agility
▪ Growth ▪ Integrate ▪ Double-Down ▪ Acceleration ▪ Marketing ▪ Talent
▪ Venture capital ▪ Support ▪ Collaboration
▪ Crowd sourcing
▪ Customer
centricity
IMPLEMENTATION BUSINESS GO-TO-MARKET
MODELS MODELS STRATEGY IT NETWORK KPI AND
▪ Build ▪ Platform ▪ Target market TRANSFORMATION TRANSFORMATION METRICS
▪ Buy ▪ Pay per use ▪ Value ▪ Partner ▪ Virtualisation ▪ Transformation
▪ Partner ▪ Outcome proposition management ▪ Agility ▪ Outputs
based ▪ Price ▪ Omni-channel ▪ Scalable & Open ▪ Inputs
▪ Channels ▪ Digital CRM ▪ 5G ▪ Processes
▪ Self-service ▪ Analytics
analytics
SOURCE: Gartner (October 2016)
CSP = communications service provider; CRM = customer relationship management;
KPI = key performance indicator
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WHERE ARE CSPs IN THEIR TRANSFORMATION JOURNEY
TCTS-OVUM SURVEY RESULTS: 60 CSPS GLOBALLY IDENTIFIED THEIR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION PRIORITIES
2%
Not started 2017 2016
5%
13%
Completed
5%
25%
Early stage
37%
60%
In progress
53%
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FRAMEWORK APPROACH: MARKET SEGMENTS
SIX MARKET SEGMENTS FOR CSPs DEFINED BASED ON PARAMETERS OUTLINED BELOW
OPERATIONAL AND BUSINESS NETWORK AND IT
FINANCIAL INFLUENCES INFLUENCES INFRASTRUCTURE
2. Large national players with some 5. Smaller national players with limited OSS Systems
international investments international investments
e.g. China Unicom, Telecom Italia, Turk Telekom, e.g. TeliaSonera, Telstra, TELUS, Rogers, Cox,
CenturyLink, Level 3, Bell, Sprint, Verizon, SFR, KPN, Belgacom, Swisscom, Telekom Austria, BSS Systems
Comcast, Telekom Italia, BT, DT Telenor, Turk Telekom,
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PLEASE RANK BELOW NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES IN THE ORDER
OF PRIORITY FOR YOUR ORGANISATION FROM 1 TO 6.
1 BEING THE MOST IMPORTANT PRIORITY?
▪ Cloud adoption- platforms and services
▪ 5G
▪ SDN
▪ IoT
Fiber backhaul ST ST ST ST LT MT
LTE/4G/LTE-Advanced/4.5G MT MT MT LT LT
5G LT LT LT LT LT LT
SDN/NFV investment LT LT MT LT LT MT
FTTx ST ST ST LT LT
Cloud & Data Center investment MT MT LT LT LT MT
Edge computing & MEC trials LT LT LT LT LT LT
Small cells/network densification LT MT MT MT LT
Network Optimisation ST ST ST ST MT ST
Centralized SON deployment ST ST LT ST ST ST
Network assurance modernization LT ST LT LT ST
Capacity management ST ST ST ST ST
Improve Network fault reporting ST ST ST LT LT ST
Network management/orchestration LT MT LT LT MT MT
Migration to SDN-based optimisation MT MT MT MT MT MT
Predictive maintenance MT LT LT MT MT
Segment 1: Players with a large home market & presence in multiple geographies (e.g. AT&T, Orange, Telefonica) Segment 4: Mobile-first players (e.g. Globe, Airtel, Safaricom)
Segment 2: Large national players with some international investments (e.g. China Unicom, Telecom Italia) Segment 5: Internet cloud players (e.g. Google, Facebook)
Segment 3: Smaller national players with limited international investments (e.g. TeliaSonera, Telstra, Telus) Segment 6: Smaller national, niche, and virtualised players (e.g. Elisa)
ST: Short Term (0-6 months) MT: Medium Term (7-24 months) LT: Long Term (24+ months)
SOURCE: TCTS-OVUM Consulting joint research, February 2018; the priorities listed are not ranked in order
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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: THE TELCO PRIORITIES
OSS SYSTEMS Segment 1 Segment 2 Segment 3 Segment 4 Segment 5 Segment 6
Segment 1: Players with a large home market & presence in multiple geographies (e.g. AT&T, Orange, Telefonica) Segment 4: Mobile-first players (e.g. Globe, Airtel, Safaricom)
Segment 2: Large national players with some international investments (e.g. China Unicom, Telecom Italia) Segment 5: Internet cloud players (e.g. Google, Facebook)
Segment 3: Smaller national players with limited international investments (e.g. TeliaSonera, Telstra, Telus) Segment 6: Smaller national, niche, and virtualised players (e.g. Elisa)
ST: Short Term (0-6 months) MT: Medium Term (7-24 months) LT: Long Term (24+ months)
SOURCE: TCTS-OVUM Consulting joint research, February 2018; the priorities listed are not ranked in order
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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: THE TELCO PRIORITIES
BUSINESS PROCESS SYSTEMS Segment 1 Segment 2 Segment 3 Segment 4 Segment 5 Segment 6
Segment 1: Players with a large home market & presence in multiple geographies (e.g. AT&T, Orange, Telefonica) Segment 4: Mobile-first players (e.g. Globe, Airtel, Safaricom)
Segment 2: Large national players with some international investments (e.g. China Unicom, Telecom Italia) Segment 5: Internet cloud players (e.g. Google, Facebook)
Segment 3: Smaller national players with limited international investments (e.g. TeliaSonera, Telstra, Telus) Segment 6: Smaller national, niche, and virtualised players (e.g. Elisa)
ST: Short Term (0-6 months) MT: Medium Term (7-24 months) LT: Long Term (24+ months)
SOURCE: TCTS-OVUM Consulting joint research, February 2018; the priorities listed are not ranked in order
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TELCO TRANSFORMATION FRAMEWORK
BUILDING THE FUTURE TELCO
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GETTING READY FOR 5G
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MONETISING THE IOT
End Modules IoT Network Platform/ Applications
Professional Services
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CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE (CX) & ANALYTICS
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TRANSFORM OPERATIONS ACCELERATE REVENUES
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TRANSFORMATION IS NO MORE A CHOICE
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TOWARDS 5G –
THE CHALLENGES
EVOLUTION TOWARDS 5G
Customer-centric Machine-centric
Requirements Lower latency
Improved spectral efficiency
Greater energy efficiency
Higher spectral capacity
More flexibility Improved reliability Highly demanding new services
Increased throughputs Agile deployment More devices Deeper indoor coverage
2015 2020 2025
LTE evolution 5G
LTE-Advanced Centralized-RAN
TDD-FDD joint operation Cloud-RAN
Wireless
Active Antennas
Technologies LTE-WiFi integration HetNet design eSON MEC
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BIG DATA, QOE, NETWORK ORCHESTRATION AND ESON
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BIG DATA, QOE, NETWORK ORCHESTRATION AND ESON
Netview 360
For such smart network design and planning to occur, one
needs to understand the UE QoE requirements and its
relationship with the network QoS performance.
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5G READY NETWORK DESIGN
▪ Our ultra high resolution makes us inherently ready for
5G
▪ Ability to perform analysis on a micro level (individual
smart meters, devices, smart car, etc)
▪ Ability to perform 3D analysis to any device in any floor
of any building
▪ 1m modeling to determine radio conditions and traffic
demand indoor and outdoor
▪ Low power IoT compatible and ready
▪ Advanced analytics in technical and business cases
allows us to quantify and prioritize 5G use and business
cases
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ACCURACY, PREDICTIONS &
DRIVING SMART LEAN CAPEX
NEXT GEN NETWORK PLANNING
The collection of accurate, statistical relevant and geographically comprehensive Correct and accurate data
QoE data, is key to the pursue of NGN Planning: modelling of the
• Crowd-sourced data; geographical based QoE
• Converged (Fixed and Mobile) UE Probe data; metrics, to allow correlation
• Core Probe data; with the topological based
• Drive trials; QoS metrics and
configurations.
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FINDING NETWORK PAIN POINTS. CUSTOMER CENTRIC SOLUTIONS
Performance
analytics to find low hanging
fruit Coverage
• 1m resolution
• Quantify pain point severity Interference
to make an informed decision
Income
objectives
Business
demographics
Combined Outdoor and Indoor Age demographics
design and planning
Pain
Painpoint
pointzoom
zoom
Output of combined pain point analysis
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INTEGRATED ACCESS AND
BACKHAUL PLANNING
BACKHAUL AND FRONT HAUL LANDSCAPE
Macro Cell Layer Small Cell Layer
FTTN
LoS mmW
Copper
Fibre
LoS uW
HFC
Cable HE
PON OLT
DSLAM
FTTN
FTTN
Edge Edge
Router Metro Ring Router
Satellite
Fibre
Fibre
DSLAM
FTTN
PON OLT
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WIRELESS BACKHAUL
Wireless backhaul will play a fundamental role for quick and reliable spectrum densification and deployment of HetNet
architectures.
Technologies like mmW offers wider bandwidths than traditional uW and competes with fibre in terms of capacity.
With Netview 360 we can reliably select the best location with high accuracy using multiple and customizable, following a
automated decision flow.
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ADVANCED PLANNING FOR BACKHAUL AND FRONTHAUL
High resolution RAN pain-point
analysis combined with pole
categorisation and prioritisation for
the deployment of mmW solution.
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CONVERGED CUSTOMER-CENTRIC QOE & ROI
TRADITIONAL NETWORK PLANNING
The Investment in 5G, coming after heavy investment in LTE and LTE-Advanced network, imposes that new deployment of
technologies and capabilities must be driven by Smart CAPEX planning to achieve maximised Return on Investment on the
deployed assets.
• Traffic modelling • Traditional method Uses low resolution inputs & • Difficulty to figure out actual data
• Generate traffic map based low assumptions leads to: demand
inputs such as sector level user data, • Poor accuracy of traffic hotspots
social media etc.
• Time spent in Manual Traffic analysis
• Error in identifying the actual pain point:
• GIS map • coverage is high
• Purchase from 3rd party vendor • Capacity, performance, interference, • Selecting a best fit solution
• Use clutter map of 5m-30m traffic etc; approach
resolution • Difficulty in choosing best fit solution
• Subscriber growth, Data demand
• Propagation model (Indoor/outdoor small cells, Macro, Wi-Fi etc..)
• Use un-tuned propagation model/ Old • Building by building, floor by floor analysis not analysis
models possible • Capacity & Coverage performance
• Outdoor and indoor integrated planning is not • Business and technical trade-off
possible
(Coverage, Capacity, time to
• The accurate placement of cells
• Re-design the network if no physical feasibility of market, capex & Opex) integrated
TX & RF analysis
• Multi carrier & multivendor composite analysis & • Real state analysis
comparison
• No effective way to estimate Long term data growth
analysis
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NEXT GEN PLANNING: A PARADIGM SHIFT
Measure QoE
Traditional planning Next Generation Network
results in: Planning requires:
• Inaccurate Network baseline & • Innovative traffic modelling, high-
Design resolution RF planning, backhaul/real
• Error in Identifying the actual pain estate assessment, and comparative
point & best fit solution business case analysis in a scalable
• Error In design output: manner
• Deviation from network KPI • Using big data Sources /analytics
& Drive test output combined with next-generation modelling
• High Capex to:
• Due to poor RoI • accurately identify high return
maximisation opportunities
• Not driven by real traffic • Poor QoE areas
demands Use QoE measurements to inform Planning • Integrated technical and business impact
• Not driven bt accurate QoE process analytics to ensure Max RoI
and QoS measurements • Ultra high resolution maps for the
• High in OPEX planning of micro and femto cells
• Heavily manual, labour • Capability to design HetNet architectures
intensive and time with unprecedented detail and accuracy
consuming process • Multivendor multicarrier analysis &
Comparison
• Advanced analytics in technical and
business cases to quantify RoI and
prioritize 5G solutions deployment
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IMPROVED QOE AND ROI – HARNESSING THE POWER OF DATA
Rollout Business Cases
Analytical Engine
Traditional Data New Data Sources
Dashboards per Data Source
Sources
Multi Layer Dashboards
OSS Radio
Data Enrichment PLATFORM Data Enrichment
QoE Core Probes
QoE Tx Probes
Market Data
OSS Core
Incidents
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NEXT GENERATION PLANNING
AND DESIGNING
YOUR PRIORITIES IN PREPARATIONS FOR 5G READINESS?
RATE FROM 1 TO 5. 1 BEING THE MOST IMPORTANT PRIORITY
2. Fibre backhaul
3. OSS Transformation
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MAJOR CHALLNEGES FACED BY OPERATORS
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BRINGING TOGETHER TELECOM EXPERTISE AND DATA SCIENCE
High-value outputs – complementary to existing tools and resources – or forming elements of a fully analyzed network design
service – enabling optimum return on investment from available budgets – including improved competitive advantage
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OUR SOLUTION ANSWERS THE BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Business Mobility
We combine data, modeling and analytics in an
Crowd Source Locations Empirical Data entirely new way.
Automation
Big data traffic modelling Generate 4m Ultra high resolution traffic map
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INDUSTRY LEADING SOLUTION FOR HETNET ANALYSIS AND DESIGN.
1. Pain Point 1 - Pain Point Analysis
6 - Business Analytics
Analysis KPI review to determine
Quantify solution tradeoffs including technical
attributes, time to market, return on investment, and whereto prioritize a solution.
total cost of ownership.
6. Trend &
2. Hotspot
Business
Analysis
Analysis
2 - Hotspot Analysis
Find data traffic at 4m resolution for both
indoor and outdoor locations.
TCTS
5 - Design/Planning
Determine the best solution available using the
available tools in the toolbox. The entire HetNet is
designed on the same platform at 1m resolution. 5. Network & 3. Network 3 - Network Baseline
Design Baseline
Planning Analysis Finding network pain points. 1m resolution baseline
of the network to find indoor / outdoor gaps and high
4. Real data utilization. Evaluate the end user quality
Estate &
Backhaul of experience, and tie in performance KPI’s.
Analysis
4 - Backhaul/Real estate
Evaluate the technical feasibility of backhaul and street furniture
options. Analysis of time to market and total cost of ownership to
recommend the best options.
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MAXIMIZING CAPITAL UTILIZATION
Geospatial KPI’s
Operator Measurement Report triangulated traffic map @ 50m Smartphone GPS based 4m resolution traffic map. Includes 35% Operator traffic map
resolution inputs for relevance. Created over a 2 month window in order to capture long term
usage patterns
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PAIN POINT ANALYSIS
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FINDING NETWORK PAIN POINTS - WHERE DO I NEED A SOLUTION?
Coverage
Network
“What is the Real estate
KPI’s RAN KPI’s
Traffic
weakest part of
my network” Traffic
Backhaul Capacity
Combined
technical and Pain Point
Performance
improvement
opportunities Interference
Time to Business
market analytics
Return on
investment
objectives
points
Business
• Technical plus business analytics to find low hanging Age demographics Pain point zoom
fruit High pain
• 1m resolution
• Quantify pain point severity to make an informed
decision Output of combined pain point analysis
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ANALYTICS: WHERE TO SPEND YOUR MONEY BY IDENTIFYING
THE MOST PROBLEMS FOR THE MOST USERS
Low pain
0% pain
100% pain
What the maps demonstrate: If you fix the areas of high pain you are fixing the worst performing
areas and will improve the worst KPI’s. With the inclusion of the traffic map you will be improving
the worst performing areas for the most number of people.
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PRIORITIZING YOUR SOLUTIONS
USING ANALYTICS TO MAKE SMART BUSINESS DECISIONS
TURKCELL
BETTER THAN Design solutions by priority. Size of dot
Vodafone vs. Turkcell – Competitive analysis VODAFONE
represents higher business priority
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CASE STUDY 1 – NETWORK DESIGN
Validation of existing Operator network design by using 15% reduction in OR 15% improvement in KPIs with
analytics tool to take business decision where to invest to Capex maintaining the
Project Design Acceptance same CAPEX budget
get the ROI same KPI performance
Objective Criteria
Sites 33 35 • Cost remain same considering the objective of improved KPI’s and
Factor
• Drive less analysis which helps to save drive test cost and intelligent
to make business decision where to invest
>75% PRB
10 Sectors 2 sectors • Got benefit of Network Improvement over competitor network
Utilization
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POC RESULTS & BENEFITS
Positive ▪ Competition Benchmarking,
Impact Optimization recommendation
CX / KPI ▪ Zero Drive test Optimization Improved N/w
SINR Improved
Performance by
between 16% -75% SINR-:25-300%
End User Throughput
Post CA DL Throughput-: 7-43%
Improved by 10% over
34 new 800Mhz
Optimized N/w Post
carriers added to
addition of 36 Carrier
cover 1 year 40%
growth ▪ OPTIMAL ROI – Paint point analysis
RSRP (Coverage) Improved Barcelona Downtown
by a value of 3.6 dBm in High resolution 5G
all Districts within AOI Design and 4G Small
Post CA over Optimized Cells Design in
N/w hotspots having High
pain points
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Relative cost for each incremental potential 800MHz sites that can be turned on
You can fix the top 30% of high network pain point by adding only 13% of potential 800MHz sites
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THE NFV/SDN FOUNDATIONS
FOR AI/ML JOURNEY
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PLEASE RATE BELOW MAJOR BARRIERS IN ADOPTION OF
SDN & NFV FROM 1 TO 5; 1 BEING THE BIGGEST BARRIER.
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HOW WE MIGRATED FROM LEGACY TO SDN/NFV
Legacy network journey SDN/NFV Journey
Standards based Fully Automated Provisioning & Service Assurance – Strong Foundation to start SDN/NFV Journey
2015-16 2018
2013-14
2017-18
Integration with Inhouse for cloud
2011-12 Order “Zero Touch 2016-17 Launched exchange on NFV
Management Provisioning” SDWAAN Product platform
2009-10 system with Integrated 2015-16 Enterprise vCPE SDN NFV NFVi built and
ecosystem Solution ops for telco
2007-08 Change
E2E Automation supporting
Data Center IT
Initiated SDWAN
Consultancy
services for R&D SDN NFV Lab
Management & Infra Products
Standalone Assign, Design (Transport & Proactive Builtup Greenfeild
Planned Event launched (Cloud
Inventory Automation: IP/MPLS) Ticketing and Internal Lab Europe Operator
Automation. & VM
Management Service testing & poc’s
Implementation)
System Started. Access Network Inventory & Tools Integration with Assurance.
IP Address, VLAN Transformation FMS/PMS System
IP & Transport & for South Africa Customer self-
Discovery for Inventory & Tools help Portal
Automated
Wireless Services
Automated
Customer.
Transformation 500+ 100+ 10+ 20+
Accuracy of for Canada CCNA Experts CCNP Experts CCIE Experts OCSA Experts
Inventory Operations.
Certified SME Experts in IP, Transmission, Wireless, UCC,
SDN, NFV, Virtualisation, Security etc.
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PLEASE RATE BELOW AI/ML USE CASES IN ORDER OF
IMPORTANCE FROM 1 TO 6; WHERE 1 IS THE MOST PRACTICAL
& IMPACTFUL USE CASE FOR BUSINESS.
1. Use AI to anticipate and avoid network issues such as congestion during peak
periods - TRANSFORM OPERATIONS
2. Use AI to enhance customer support, QOS, and performance management -
ENHANCE CUSTOEMR EXPERIENCE
3. Real time delivery of targeted campaigns
4. IoT operations management - DRIVE EFFFICIENCY
5. Developing security threat intelligence
6. Big data governance- Real time fraud prevention/detection -
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WHICH ASPECT OF BELOW OPERATIONS IS YOUR ORGANISATION
PRIORITIZING FOR NEXT-GEN TRANSFORMATION THROUGH AI/ML?
PLEASE RATE FROM 1 TO 5; 1 BEING THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT.
1. Network Automation (Provisioning & configuration management)
3. Predictive Analytics
4. Proactive Maintenance
5. Self Optimization
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NEXT GENERATION NETWORK TRANSFORMATION:
MACHINE LEARNING & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Intelligent Network
Alarm
Syslogs
Data
Network Automation
Performance Trouble
Management Ticket
System Data Pattern Matching / Alarm
NETWORK Correlation
DATA ML / AI
Fault SOURCES
Manage SNMP Predictive Analytics
ment Traps
System
Proactive Maintenance
AAA logs Security
Logs
Self Optimization
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WHAT ARE THE MAJOR DATA SOURCES YOU ARE CURRENTLY LEVERAGING
IN YOUR ORGANIZATION FOR ENABLING AI / ML ? (SELECT ALL THAT
APPLY)
1. Alarm Data
2. Syslog
3. SNMP Data
4. Trouble Ticket Data
5. Security Logs
6. AAA Logs
7. Fault Management System
8. Performance Management System
9. None
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NEXT GENERATION NETWORK TRANSFORMATION:
MACHINE LEARNING & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
USE CASES
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PLEASE RATE BELOW MENTIONED BARRIERS IN ADOPTION OF AI
FOR NETWORK OPERATIONS FROM 1 TO 4; 1 BEING THE MOST
CRITICAL BARRIER?
1. Clear strategy for Next-gen tools(eg. Google's Tensor Flow, Caffe) adoption &
skillset for evaluation
2. Extending the Adoption of AI to your exsiting legacy network stack (B/OSS)
3. Considering scarcity of in-house skillsets, the security issues associated with sharing
data assets with the outside ecosystem
4. Limited or no real use cases for direct revenue generation with AI
5. Complex & difficult choices to make between open source, proprietary & COTS
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CASE STUDY-1: IMPLEMENTATION OF PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS
SOLUTION IN FIXED LINE FOR EUROPEAN OPERATOR
Background and Scope Benefits Delivered
• Customer is one of the largest of UK top three telecommunications Alarm Prediction within an accuracy of 69.6% within 7-days prediction window
companies
• Scope includes implementation of Predictive Analytics Solution for Alarm Prediction Coverage of 27.1% within Fixed Line network domain
customer Fixed Line Red Stream – IP Network Prediction report: Three cross validation reports (28-Sep till 12 Oct) with total prediction
• Scope applicable for whole of UK region for set of defined Enterprise count of 463 Important alarms
customers Future Prediction report (3rd to 9th Nov 2017) with total prediction count of 175 unique alerts
Key Objectives The entire setup hosted locally within customer premises for 100% data protection
• Identification of use cases within the Fixed Line IP network and Enrichment of Predictive alerts with live ticket data for better handling of faults
demonstration of future prediction of faults
• Demonstrated actionable item on a site with an identified root cause Prediction Model Build
from CAN Prediction model (7 day prediction window)
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CASE STUDY-2 : IMPLEMENTATION OF PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS
SOLUTION IN FIXED LINE NETWORK FOR AN EUROPEAN OPERATOR
Background and Scope Benefits Delivered
• Customer is one of the largest of Belgium's top three mobile Alarm Prediction within an accuracy of 54% within 7-days prediction window
telecommunications companies
• Scope includes implementation of Predictive Analytics Solution and Alarm Prediction Coverage of 23% within DSLAM network domain
Automation of Predictive Incidents (auto-repair & auto-assign) for Use case1: Optical Disconnect handling (auto-create, auto-diagnose, auto-repair, auto-
customer DSLAM network (Remote Optical Platform) dispatch and auto-closure of ticket
Use case2: Power Failure on REM (auto-create, auto-diagnose, auto-repair, auto-dispatch and
Key Objectives auto-closure of ticket
• Identification of use cases within the DSLAM network and Prediction Engine outputs integrated with automation engine
demonstration of end-end automation from predicting faults and
Enrichment of Predictive alerts with live ticket data for better handling of faults
auto-handling of alerts
• Automated Incident repair in NOC for Optical related faults
Demonstrated auto-handling of incidents (auto-repair and auto-assign) for 55 use cases
• Auto Tickets Dispatch to Field Force for faulty ports in REM
• Suppress alerts in NOC and transform operations to work only on
incidents rather than an alert Solution Architecture
Key Objectives The entire setup hosted within TCTS premises with data security control
• Demonstration of future predictions of faults within the IP and Enrichment of Predictive alerts with live ticket data for better handling of faults
Transmission network within 7-day prediction window
• Demonstration of actionable item on nodes with an identified root
cause from CAN Prediction model Fault Prediction KPI trend Prediction Model Build
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CASE STUDY-5: IMPLEMENTATION OF PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS SOLUTION
FOR RADIO ACCESS NETWORK (RAN) FOR EUROPEAN OPERATOR
Background and Scope Benefits Delivered
• Customer is one of the largest telecommunications Operator in Spain Alarm Prediction within an accuracy of 67.07% within 7-days prediction window
• Scope includes implementation of Predictive Analytics Solution for
Radio Access Network (RAN) and whole of Spain region for set of Alarm Prediction Coverage of 59.10% within Radio Access Network
defined Enterprise customers Prediction report: Three cross validation reports with total prediction count of 71636
Important alarms (14-Dec’17 till 28 Jan 18)
Separate KPI measure for VIP tagged sites (CBT/CPD/POP/ VIP CORPORATE/CAT/ Resto VIP)
Key Objectives totaling 563 True predictions within 18-Dec-28 Jan
• Demonstration of future predictions of faults within the Radio Access The entire setup hosted within TCTS premises with data security control
network (RAN) within 7-day prediction window
Go-Live for Ticket assignment to Field Force for value realization
• Demonstration of actionable item on VIP tagged sites with an
identified root cause from CAN Prediction model
Fault Prediction KPI trend
Key Solutions Facets
Fault Predictions Coverage & Accuracy Trend
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2017) and daily alarm feed (Dec17-Jan18) used for Model building 3000 70.00%
• System was able to identify and analyzed 1450 Unique type of 2500 60.00%
1500 40.00%
• Cleansing of 30% junk RCA types in the model and 33% of sites 1000 30.00%
• Implementation of VIP Sites in reports and KPI-metrics for VIP sites 0 10.00%
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IN YOUR OPINION, WHICH OF THE BELOW AREAS WILL BE MOST
BENEFITTED WITH AI /ML SOLUTIONS ?
1. Network efficiency
2. Customer satisfaction
3. Operational efficiency
4. Security issues
5. Revenue enhancement
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