Service Lifecycle Automation for 5G Core

Automate the risk out of new service deployment

Overview
Features and Benefits

Reduce Time-to-Market, improve reliability and optimize Total Cost of Ownership by automating the whole service lifecycle. The end-to-end solution automates and implements agile delivery of a core network, including not only the initial design, deployment, integration, verification and rollout of the network services, but also the automated care including continuous monitoring, predictive reconfiguration, update, upgrade and trouble ticketing.

Forget about unstructured automation, manual status updates and human to human interaction delays. By eliminating automation silos and using Digital Automation (DA), the solution creates customer tailored, yet reusable end-to-end workflows under a common platform for network design and deployment reducing inefficiencies of operations.

The time of manual software acceptance testing is over. Test Automation (TA) via end-to-end system regression, performance and robustness testing not only drastically improves the reliability and lead-time of software delivery, but also radically reduces testing costs in comparison to traditional testing.

And last, assure high Quality of Service with significantly less network level incidents and costly downtime by using Predictive Network Monitoring (PNM) during operations to continuously track and detect anomalies of the network.

Nokia’s Service Lifecycle Automation solution covers design, deploy, test and operation phases providing valuable lead-time savings, reliability improvement and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) improvement to operators.

Reliability improvement

Time-to-market improvement

Total Cost of Ownership reduction

1. Design and Deploy

Traditionally, during design and integration phase, automation scripts are developed, stored, executed without structure, resulting in inefficient operations. In Nokia with Digital Automation (DA), we bring these siloed automation under a single platform. Nokia Services and the CSP Operations team are constructing the workflows from smaller, reusable building blocks from the automation library and execute these DigiMops (Digital Method of Procedure) without human-to-human interaction delays.

Silo-free, reusable automation

High collaboration

Real-time monitoring

2. Test

Nokia’s Test Automation Services enable the creation, execution and reporting of network level validation test cases in a fully automated manner. The validation scope encompasses Lifecycle management validation, Functional regression testing, Capacity benchmarking and Robustness testing. Tests are executed and results are analyzed using real terminals connected over the air; or via load generators, 24 hours a day. Test Automation enables the validation of any changes in the network to ensure speedy acceptance of the change, be it just a configuration change, a new feature activation or an update, upgrade of a network function.

Reusable test cases

Comprehensive test reports

Testing capability for VNF, domain, mobile network

3. Operate

Once the network is rolled out, Nokia’s Predictive Network Monitoring, (PNM) ensures that the network is maintaining a high level of Quality of Service (QoS) by continuously monitoring network KPIs and alarms. As KPIs start degrading in the network, either in the infrastructure or in the network element level, PNM predictively acts to avoid any disturbance in the end user service – it could trigger a network function scaling, trigger a rebalancing for the subscribers between network elements or sites.