ISE Magazine, August 2019
I S E I C T S O L U T I O N S E D U C AT I O N 7 0 NETWORK AUTOMIZATION Moving Toward What Really Matters Leveraging CLA to Deliver QoE Automation has long been prevalent in CSP operations like in OSS root cause analysis service provisioning or self optimizing networks But with the telecom industry finally on the cusp of large scale SDN NFV implementations and the emergence of 5G networks Closed Loop Automation CLA has become a strategic imperative CLA will enable Communication Service Providers CSPs to keep delivering Quality of Experience QoE to their subscribers on what promises to be a more complex network with greater traffic congestion and an increased threat landscape A Look Back For years when CSPs talked about CLA they saw it as a better more efficient way to solve well known well defined problems For example everyone agreed it would be great if OSS Fault Management systems could automatically analyze tens of thousands of alarms to identify the root cause that represented the underlying problem Clearly this would be faster than human analysis and mean time to resolution MTTR would be greatly reduced These kinds of solutions have been very successful Recently with the move to Software Defined Networking SDN and Network Function Virtualization NFV CLA has begun to address dynamic unpredictable scenarios Fueled by the need to keep CapEx and OpEx in check CSPs have been eager to find ways to avoid worst case over provisioning by responding effectively and efficiently to changing resource demands SDN and NFV are beginning to do just that By Itai Weissman jbitz@ witzcommunications com @ ItaiWeissman @ allot_ ltd
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