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Service Management and Orchestration

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Advanced automation for advanced networks

The complexity of cellular networks is continuously increasing with a growing number of functionalities, algorithms and parameters. Mobile operators often deploy technologies from different suppliers and evolve their networks to introduce advanced capabilities. This increases cost pressure, especially when considering a management and orchestration solution.

Automation and Artificial Intelligence are essential for effectively addressing these challenges.

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Best possible performance

At any time - at lowest possible costs

Better monetization

With differentiated services                                                        

Highest versatility

Leverage the benefits of open architectures                                

With AI, our customers have achieved advanced automation gains across the complete network lifecycle.​

20%

increase of DL throughput

30%

higher cell utilization

10,000

autonomous operations per hour

90%

faster detection and repair of NW incidents

What is Service Management and Orchestration?

Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) is an open platform for managing a multi-supplier, multi-technology radio access network (RAN). SMO provides the intelligence, automation and coordination for managing the end-to-end lifecycle of the network. 

SMO is designed to address operators' challenges and help them deliver differentiated service experiences for enterprises and consumers.

The SMO framework consists of different layers, including multi-supplier network management, application automation and orchestration.

What is SMO

What benefits does SMO bring?

Enhanced network performance

SMO leverages AI-powered optimization algorithms to provide intelligent closed-loop automation, leading to higher network performance and efficient resource utilization.

Sustainable total cost of ownership (TCO)

SMO leverages AI-powered optimization algorithms to automate network management tasks. This reduces the need for manual intervention, which in turn lowers labor costs and minimizes human errors.

Truly open architecture

SMO manages multi-supplier networks and supports new standardized interfaces, enabling easy portability of O-RAN compliant rApps between different vendor platforms.

Slice automation

SMO automates the dynamic orchestration of network slices, ensuring that each slice meets specific SLAs. This supports the delivery of differentiated services.

Comprehensive solution enabling advanced AI and zero-touch automation

MantaRay SMO enables true openness and a simple evolution from today’s MantaRay product family to a full SMO solution while leveraging the best that AI and automation can offer. It’s the only SMO solution in the market that can achieve TM Forum's autonomous networks level 4 already today.

MantaRay SMO can run and orchestrate both the existing network and automation solutions that our customers use today while also supporting new interfaces and new applications. The solution comes with more than 30 rApps based on our existing SON modules. We are also building an extensive catalogue of Nokia and third-party rApps, and we offer a software development kit (SDK) to our customers and application developers. 

Our extensive AI and automation capabilities are already proven in commercial networks, delivering tangible benefits to our customers. In addition, we deliver enhanced efficiency with our AI-based services.

SMO

MantaRay SMO – the industry-leading AI and automation solution

MantaRay SMO is a comprehensive solution that leverages advanced AI capabilities and enables zero-touch automation.

MantaRay NM

  • Common radio network management solution for purpose-built RAN, Cloud RAN including data center hardware and cloud infrastructure (CaaS).
  • We will further enhance MantaRay NM with O-RAN-compliant interfaces.
  • Also manages packet core and mobile core.
MantaRay NM
MantaRay SON

MantaRay SON

  • The application automation layer is implemented with MantaRay SON, our market-leading self-organizing networks solution.
  • It will provide a multi-supplier, non-real-time Radio Intelligent Controller (RIC) functionality with support for the O-RAN R1 interface.

MantaRay AutoPilot

  • Our AI-powered, intent-based MantaRay AutoPilot autonomously orchestrates the SON modules and rApps, developed by Nokia, our customers and application developers.
  • Part of the application automation ecosystem.
MantaRay AutoPilot
Digital Operations Center

Digital Operations Center

  • Integrates a key functionality for our SMO, the RAN Slice Controller. 
  • Provides dynamic orchestration and resource management capabilities for network slices

AI and automation field-proven in customer networks

  • 100% accuracy in detecting network incidents
  •  99% effort saved per day with autonomous contextualization
  • 10,000 autonomous corrective actions per hour​
  • 30% higher cell utilization​ 
  • 10 percent average enhancement in downlink throughput
  • 29 percent improvement in busy hour downlink throughput ​ 
  • 22 percent reduction in 5G drop call rate
  • 6 percent average reduction in energy consumption on top of RAN energy saving features ​ 
  • No degradation in network KPIs

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