Widespread adoption of
cloud-based services and virtualization, network deployments, upgrades, and
expansion are making network deployment and evolution more complex. These
include increased levels of the following:
- Spectrum complexity and an
increasing volume of parameters to be monitored
- Small-cell densification, making
logistics and integration more challenging
- Hardware volumes, driving an
increase in number of network elements to put in place
- Multi-vendor deployment models,
with the arrival of Cloud RAN and edge
- Critical use-case performance,
requiring more accuracy and agility
Communications service
providers (CSPs) need to take into account these newly emerging considerations
and revise their approach to network deployment – leveraging the latest
available technologies.
A new reality for network deployment
Network rollout has
traditionally been viewed as a series of sequential phases based on design,
engineering, installation, and acceptance. Many of these phases have been, to a
large extent, manual and labor-intensive processes.
Today, CSPs require more
from network deployments, with more stringent performance requirements from 5G
than they did from 4G. 5G offers exciting new opportunities having Fixed
Wireless Access (FWA) in suburban areas, private network solutions in
industrial areas with multiple connected factories and warehouses, and also
high-performing consumer services in dense, urban environments.
With all the complexity
that comes with 5G, it becomes more and more important to continuously optimize
network upgrades, evolution, and maintenance. It is no longer enough to just
put a network in place. It is vital that CSPs get a fully digitized view of the
network that has been deployed and to know exactly what can be done on a
particular site in the future without having to physically visit that site.
Artificial intelligence
(AI) and machine learning (ML) are now commonly used many different industry
sectors. The use cases for AI and ML include everything from consumer services
through to agriculture and farming, security and surveillance, manufacturing
and production. Advanced algorithms employed in AI and ML offer us a way to
escape labor-intensive mundane business tasks by automating them and performing
data analysis at speeds of which we could only dream.
Digitized network deployment is here
Network deployment that
is digitized from design to acceptance, considering the performance required
for each use case as well as topology, current and future traffic demands, is
no pipe dream. It’s here and now.
We have combined tools
that leverage international data standards with proprietary data and processes
to provide CSPs with unified digitized experiences during deployment,
expansion, upgrades, and, maintenance of their networks.
Ericsson Intelligent
Deployment offers CSPs quick return on investments with fast and efficient
rollout and fast site activation. It delivers standardization and
digitalization of the full network lifecycle using a modular suite of
capabilities that focuses specifically on network deployment. Ericsson
Intelligent Deployment offers:
- Fast time to market by
standardizing data in a single user interface
- Lower OPEX through better control
of the network lifecycle
- Transparency through access to
data from the end-to-end deployment process
- Cost efficiency, sending drones
instead of engineers for the site surveys
- Accuracy through capturing more
data and adding granularity
- Flexibility in planning OPEX and
CAPEX availability and change management
Redesigned network deployment for the 5G age
Ericsson Intelligent
Deployment is designed to enrich and improve our service-delivery capabilities.
It represents a modular, future-proof, data-driven, and holistic approach to
network deployment and network lifecycle management.
As a trusted partner to
service providers around the world, we at Ericsson are committed to delivering
the most reliable, most efficient, and accurate network deployments, and
operations. We believe that Ericsson Intelligent Deployment ticks all of those
boxes so CSPs can break free of traditional network rollouts and make even
smarter investment decisions to capture the potential of the 5G era.
Do you want to learn more
about one of the many capabilities that Intelligent Deployment offers to its
customers? Click and download our paper on
Intelligent Site Engineering.