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Infovista to showcase Automated Assurance for 5G networks, services and end-user experiences at FutureNet World

Portfolio of use cases enable CSPs to capitalize on 5G SA opportunity and monetize their network investments

Paris, France – April 21st, 2022 – Infovista, the global leader in network lifecycle automation (NLA), today announced details of its participation at the FutureNet World in London (10-11 May 2022). At the event, Infovista will demonstrate how its uniquely comprehensive NLA portfolio of applications and solutions harness the latest AI/ML technologies with a cloud-native by-design architecture to provide CSPs with 360° visibility, interoperability and predictive automation, from the customer to the network resource and underlying infrastructure.

Infovista experts and executives will be on hand to explain how automated assurance and operations is today enabling network operators to quickly, proactively and cost-efficiently roll out, optimize and monetize advanced 5G NSA and 5G SA networks and services using Infovista’s cloud-native and open platform of world-leading NLA applications.

“5G and cloudified networks are not only transforming the services CSPs can deliver, they are also transforming the CSP organization itself. Traditional assurance and operations silos are no longer fit-for-purpose,” said Franco Messori, Chief Product Strategy & Transformation Officer, Infovista. “Automated assurance is fundamental to operators’ complete visibility and control to monetize new SLA-backed 5G services and experiences and maximize previous investments done for 4G. At FutureNet, we’ll showcase our entire portfolio of cloud-native Automated Assurance solutions and demonstrate how it simplifies network operations and delivers automation across the whole network lifecycle to maximize the return on your mobile network investments.”

During the FutureNet World, Infovista experts will demonstrate new innovative solutions and use cases spanning the 5G network lifecycle, including how it enables CSPs to:

Gain 360° Intelligence

  • Introducing Ativa™, the new Automated Assurance and operations suite of applications, supporting the next generation of automated cloud-based service operations centers (SOC). It equips service providers to improve quality of experience, reliability and performance whilst reducing costs through system consolidation, process automation, system and domain correlation and consolidation, and automated of network orchestration.

Go beyond traditional assurance

  • Demonstrating its new Smart CAPEX optimization solution for operators designing, deploying and operating 5G networks. Smart CAPEX enables CSPs to accelerate and increase the return on investment (ROI) from their 5G network rollout, expansion, and densification by intelligently calculating and optimizing the predicted business outcomes – including revenue, churn and quality of experience – of their 5G CAPEX investments. It enhances predictive accuracy by introducing operational data typically provided by assurance systems, and external business, market, and financial data, with powerful predictive calculation and geospatial mapping capabilities reducing the time needed for planning decision-making.

Accelerate time-to-value

  • Showcasing its new 360° Assurance solutions family that combines the correlation of subscriber QoE, service QoS and network resource performance with advanced troubleshooting capabilities into pre-configured solutions for specific services, including, for example, SLA-backed 5G network slicing, mobile voice (VoNR) and fixed voice, enabling faster and more efficient network and service operations.

Leverage latest cloud technologies

  • Revealing how the new cloud-native Ativa™ Automated Assurance and Operations suite of applications is built upon a powerful, open platform with shared capabilities that unlock advanced automation scenarios, including AIOps, zero-touch configuration, active testing, and workflow automation.

Our participation in the agenda at the event focuses on how to unlock the new monetization opportunities that 5G brings both to CSPs and a diverse range of enterprise verticals. Infovista executives will be participating in industry discussions, including:

Keynote panel discussion:

Wednesday 11 May @ 10:00 – 10:30

Automation Now: Role of automation in running a network with disaggregation technology

  • The time is now: How to accelerate network modernization programs
  • Investment levels, requirements and priorities: navigation the route
  • New partnership models around automation: overcoming the challenge of competitors collaborating on projects
  • How much do CSPs want to rely on AI? What is the model?
  • Operational AI – moving from concept to implementation: keys to success
  • Scaling AI & automation beyond specific tasks to broad capabilities and end-to-end processes

Moderator: Patrick Kelly, Founder & Principal Analyst, Appledore Research Group

Panellists:

  • Neil McRae, Managing Director & Chief Architect, BT
  • Terje Jenson, SVP & Head of Global Network Architecture, Telenor
  • Franco Messori, Chief Product Strategy & Transformation Officer, Infovista

Infovista’s executives and technology experts will be available to share insights into its strategies and case studies, including some of the world’s largest and most advanced networks, such as Rakuten Mobile, Ooredoo and Zain, and how Infovista is today helping them to benefit from the efficiency and business agility gains of the latest industry technology advancements, including 5G SA and Open RAN.

Infovista is a Platinum Sponsor of FutureNet World 2022 and will exhibiting on the show floor. To learn more about the NLA use cases and its portfolio of solutions for 5G network planning, testing and assurance, or to meet with Infovista during FutureNet World, please reserve a meeting with the team at the event.

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Infovista launches Smart CAPEX solution to deploy and scale 5G networks that deliver maximum ROI

AI/ML-based network planning, optimization, and modelling solution to deliver mobile network with the highest revenue potential

Paris, France – February 10th, 2022 – Infovista, the global leader in network lifecycle automation (NLA), today announced its innovative Smart CAPEX solution for operators and businesses designing, deploying and operating 5G networks. Smart CAPEX accelerates and increases the return on investment (ROI) from 5G network rollout, expansion and densification by intelligently calculating and optimizing the predicted business outcomes – including revenue, churn and quality of experience. The solution enables senior business and technology leaders to develop a holistic business case for network investments based on a common expectation and understanding of how network investment drives revenue growth. This enables, for the first time, a shift in focus in network planning, from network KPI optimization to business outcomes optimization, by combining diverse and numerous network and business predictions within a single vendor-neutral software application.

The Smart CAPEX solution enables rapid, ROI-optimized CAPEX allocation for the highest predicted customer experience and revenue, through precise roll-out and expansion of radio coverage and performance, at the lowest cost. It reduces the time taken to reach investment decisions by incorporating geospatial revenue potential prediction, automated TCO simulation and modern ‘what-if’ analysis technologies. In combination with its business KPI forecasting capabilities, this accelerates time-to-revenue and optimizes ROI in ways not possible through traditional, manually intensive approaches to network planning. Based on Infovista’s cloud-native application portfolio, the solution enables accelerated roll-outs from one region or market to the next in a consistent, systematic way by applying common models, algorithms and analysis tools from a centrally managed and hosted application. This avoids the need to manually deploy and configure planning tools in each market individually, and provides a single point from which all planning and optimization projects can be visualized by senior stakeholders.

When supporting the expansion and densification of live networks, Infovista Smart CAPEX uses powerful AI/ML forecasting capabilities to combine live ‘operational’ network and traffic performance data with external data to provide accurate insights into the impact of network performance on business outcomes both current and future. Operational and traffic performance data provides intelligence into coverage, quality of service (QoS), quality of experience (QoE) and churn. Business metrics from external data include TCO models, ARPU, crowdsourced data, social media usage and customer lifetime value (CLTV).

The Smart CAPEX solution allows CSPs to undertake ROI-based site prioritization based on an accurate analysis and understanding of revenue potential, the total cost of ownership (TCO), and time to market (TTM) constraints for both greenfield 5G deployments and mobile network expansions. This includes automated calculations of both the TCO, such as radio hardware and fibre length, and TTM, such as site acquisition and site construction time, as well as backhaul cost considerations for both. The Smart CAPEX dashboard provides valuable insights in the form of heatmaps with rich geospatial views. They provide ‘at-a-glance’ information about the current and predicted business performance of network investments in specific areas.

“The telecommunications industry today faces exponential growth in traffic; mobile operators, systems integrators, tower companies, equipment providers and ecosystem vendors are investing heavily in 5G to enable the delivery of new 5G-enabled services. Linking the evolution of radio infrastructure with key business objectives around revenue growth is a must. Each participant in the value chain shares a common interest in ensuring they can capture the revenue opportunities while controlling their cost,” said Franco Messori, Chief Product Strategy and Transformation Officer, Infovista. “Smart CAPEX allows business and technology teams to effectively and efficiently plan, optimize and model different network evolution scenarios to deliver next generation networks with the maximum return on investment.”

“Designed for enabling both greenfield and brownfield operators to quickly deploy high-performance mobile networks that fully exploit the potential of 5G, Infovista’s Smart CAPEX helps them to make intelligent, data-driven RF investment decisions based on the priorities they set to deliver against key business objectives. Smart CAPEX is a significant step towards giving 5G operators the insight and intelligence they need to make informed network investment decisions that maximize their ROI and make 5G work smarter,” added Messori.

The main functionalities and deliverables in the Smart CAPEX solution include:

– Geospatial heatmaps: visualizations of current and predicted business KPIs in the form of heatmaps that users can view at various levels of granularity, from the national level down to the cell-site and ‘pixel’ level. The KPIs include: QoE, Churn risk, Revenue, TCO and ROI

– Digital twin modeling: A model that replicates the live physical network alongside population density and traffic demand

– Nationwide network planning & optimization: Smart CAPEX allows you to dynamically scale 4G and 5G network models to the size of whole countries

– Focus area detection: The identification of both current and predicted geographic areas with problems resulting from insufficient capacity, including insufficient capacity and coverage; insufficient or rapidly declining QoE; rapid capacity demand growth; and low spectral efficiency

– TCO and ROI modeling: The configuration of equipment and associated costs, alongside maintenance overhead data to accurately estimate the overall TCO implication of different planning decisions, to support the identification of the most cost-efficient cell layouts

– ROI Optimization: Leveraging its revenue heatmap and TCO modeling capabilities, Smart CAPEX solution identifies the areas with healthy ROI and visualize that in various formats including ROI heatmaps and network upgrade schedule priorities by ROI

Smart CAPEX is part of Infovista’s Network Lifecycle Automation suite, that enables automation of processes spanning multiple network lifecycle phases, accelerating digital transformation for CSPs and enterprises.

To find out more about the Smart CAPEX solution, and how operators can use its AI/ML-based network planning, optimization, and modelling to deliver a mobile network with the highest revenue potential, please download our whitepaper: https://www.infovista.com/solutions/5g-investment-smart-capex.