Current Problem Statements (Industry Angst)
OVERWHELMING TRANSPORT COMPLEXITYLegacy, current, disaggregation next, multi-vendor (and multi-solutions), decades of deployments…
REACTIVE MANAGEMENTTransport still largely managed by ‘are you there’ or ‘waiting to break’ based network management… (Day 2 functions around planning, capacity, and network/service assurance)
INVENTORY DEBACLEOperators' greatest source of pain… service and resource inventories still sitting in static OSS… (that goes ‘stale,’ shortly after turn-up)
HUMAN HANDS, STILL TOUCHING THE NETWORKFor turn-up, assurance triage, upgrades, broader… quality, scale, human dependence, hugely impacted… (need our greatest assets, our people – to be innovating and creating value)
TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP IS COMPOUNDINGTransport network ‘sprawl’… people, process, and system considerations across disparate networks, and broader – not sustainable…
DIGITAL EXPERIENCE (DX)Self-serve and digital interactions are the new norm. Until the rest-of-this-mess is addressed, not possible for Transport
The Answer: Programmable Networking
NETWORK ABSTRACTIONMake it all look the same (original SDN objective)
CROSS PLATFORM AND SOLUTION SUPPORTLife-cycle commitment to lab certifications, engineering specifications, for automation of service orchestration and assurance… across the industry’s core solutions
DATA DRIVEN ASSURANCE & MANAGEMENTFix it before it breaks, and when it does break – automated triage & remediation
NETWORK-AS-THE-INVENTORYActive and available inventory, discovered and maintained from the living network
VISIBILITY & CONTROLFull life cycle service orchestration of the service, as seen and automated through every phase of the service experience
FOR ALL OF THESE (DX)Extensible to the Customer through advanced UI/Portal and Programmable Interfaces (API-driven & Analytics-driven Visibility & Control)