The CSP’s are growing over time. Network complexity is getting more and more significant when introducing more technologies now with 5G coming and O-RAN architecture which need to be manage between all the technologies.

Emerging technologies :

O-RAN ecosystem
Narrowband IoT
Next-generation voice
Mobile network solutions

Mobile Operators’ Business Challenges

Network Management - managing the network and multiple technologies in terms of layer management, mobility management, interference management
Power savings - managing this costly resource as consumption continues to increase
Performance - balancing performance and return on the investment for optimal customer experience and satisfaction
Traffic management - understand where customers need capacity and how to deliver it in the most efficient way
Smart Investment - Capex reduction is also a challenge that can be address if you use your network infrastructure more efficiently by load balancing application for example
Mobility - managing the services to deliver fast-moving mobile experiences

HCL Augmented Network Automation (ANA) Platform

HCL ANA is a next-generation SON platform that enables communications service providers (CSPs) to simplify network management complexity with a closed-loop network automation environment that supports multi-vendor, multi-technology deployments. The HCL ANA Platform collects and processes vast amounts of data in real-time from most network domains (i.e., radio to transport to core) to automatically predict, configure, and optimize multi-domain networks with self-healing techniques

Benefits:

Reduce Total Cost of Ownership - Reduce up to 20% cost of on-premise high end graphic hardware with optimal deployment of Azure services
Increased Engineering Mobility - Increase mobility of engineering workforce with up to 30% increase in performance and reliability
Improved Collaboration - Improved collaboration between OEM engineers and Suppliers
Operational flexibility - Chose from the flexible operational packages from purpose built to managed operations

Features
Automating Network Optimization
Integrating New and Legacy Technology
Intelligent Energy Savings
Data Manipulation
Azure Services
IoT Services, AKS Cluster, API Services, Azure Kafka, Azure Key Vault, Azure Monitor
VMs - Standard_D8s_v3, Standard_E8as_v4, Standard_E8as_v4,Standard_E8as_v4 - Total 12 (Base Config), Azure Scale set

HCL Augmented Network Automation (ANA) Platform

Autor: HCL America Inc_HCLT