Service and network automation

Create a living network

Our broad portfolio of automation solutions, services, and use cases will benefit your business with faster service delivery, reduced expenses, and a more secure, stable network.

Today’s competitive environment demands maximizing the value of the network. Service providers must reduce operations costs at the same time that network complexity is increasing. They must elevate customer experience to stay relevant.

Luckily, technologies such as cloud, data insight, machine learning, and 5G are bringing extraordinary opportunities to do just that.

Intent-based automation is now achievable, bringing with it the capability for networks to self-configure, optimize their performance in real time, and recover from failure events. It creates a new kind of network – a living network.

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Network automation solutions for different network needs

Network Efficiency

Reduce operational costs by with orchestrated automation across network domains driven by machine learning.

Agility

Satisfy your customers and improve your top line with rapid, automated delivery of new services.

Quality

Reduce operational costs by with orchestrated automation across network domains driven by machine learning.

Stability and security

Rapidly deploy network element updates, reduce system outages, and deliver consistent, predictable outcomes.

Our automation solutions and services can address automation across network domains, and deliver a superior business result for the service provider no matter your starting point.

We offer a variety of solutions and services to help with automation at the customer, service, and network layers.

Service automation

Automation of the full round-trip service lifecycle management process from design to deployment and assurance. With service automation, you increase your agility to deliver services while improving your operational performance and quality KPIs and KQIs.

Northbound

Intent-based exposure of services for northbound consumption in flexible business models

Southbound

Automated discovery of southbound resource domains to enable more real-time allocation of resources across the service lifecycle

Artificial intelligence

Use of AI/ML for forward projection to support SLAs and for forward projection of assurance resolutions

Policy

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are designed-in to the service models to ensure accurate assurance policies

Lifecycle

Intelligent interoperation with underlying network domains to coordinate all facets of the service lifecycle

Network automation

Network automation offers the service provider reduced cost and greater simplicity and agility in leveraging the powerful capabilities within their networks.