The most striking thing about a self-healing network is its wide-ranging use of intelligence. The diagram shows that a telco will need to develop a range of new intelligence capabilities, alongside new data collection techniques and downstream automations. In recent research on automation, self-healing was identified as one of the last automations to mature in […]
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This research started by investigating the definition of self-healing because, although it is part of the Self-X terminologies within the TM Forum’s autonomous network project, it is often used to describe different functionalities within the network. At interview, there was a mix of enthusiasm for using the phrase “self-healing”, given that it is often interchangeable […]
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A spreadsheet of 120 use cases for intelligence and automation in open RAN was developed in recent research. The diagram provides an analysis of the use of intelligence on the x-axis (from analytics through to more complex machine learning) and automations on the y-axis. The distribution on the graphic illustrates that there is a […]
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The RAN will become the biggest user of analytics, AI and automation (A3) in the telco and its virtualisation/disaggregation in the open RAN specifications enables a range of vendors to participate in the provision of A3. The diagram describes the major groupings of network requirements found during research into r/xApp deployments – the size of […]
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A3 (analytics, AI and automation) solutions deployed in the network and OSS vary widely in “sophistication”. Simple analytics offer the ability to gain insight into how the network is performing while machine learning and reasoning can be included within automations to create intelligent processes. The diagram below shows the results of analysis into the: sophistication […]
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