Bring AI to Reality

Practices of Automation & Intelligent in Telco Operations

Tang Qibing (Bill)

President, Global Technical Services

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Challenge and Challenged Situation …

Source：GSMA, OTF 2017

Operation Transformation Forum

Traffic will grow more than 8-fold in the next 5y

Revenues forecast to grow below 2% CAGR

CapEx & OpEx will overtake the

value from data growth (?)

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Improve the way we took in a new way …

• Profit margins is 3 to 15 % higher

• Expect margins to increase by up to 5 % more

than the industry average.

AI adopters with a proactive strategy

have significantly higher profit margins

How CSPs Can Exploit Artificial Intelligence

Network assurance

Network

planning and

engineering

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Address the critical business challenges…

Deliver

Business Agility

Dramatically simplify

and automate to deliver

zero-touch operations

fit for the 5G worldSource：TM Forum

<<The 2020 Digital Partner>>

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Make it happen(1/2) – Practices in engineering

UC 2: Automate on-line quality verification

24M+ items checked

45M+ photos labeled

Efficiency: 1day/site to 2h/site

Report Generation: 5h/site to 1h/site

Audit cost: 40% reduced (~45$/site)

UC 1: Automate design for site configuration & cabling Effect

Efficiency improved by 30+%:

(26.5 to 18.5 days/100 sites)

30+ cabling rules

50+ Antenna models

70+ RF models

230+ BB card models

90+ Cabinet models

100+ expertise know how

150k+ installed base site

configuration

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Make it happen(2/2) – Practices in operations

UC 3: Intelligent Frequency interference analysis

175K+ interference

cases trained

Effect

Time of interference analysis

reduced from days to hours

UC 4: Proactive, Predictive, Preventive maintenance

Packet Core issue analysis:

30min/issue to 10min/issue

LTE Radio site (CPRI Link)

Fault occurs reduced by 20+%

5k+ Issues samples

40+ expertise know how

50k data labeled

40%+ LTE base station HW

Accurate ratio: 60%+

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Key finding and lessons learnt …

Digital

Twins

Integrate AI into Solutions:

Procedure/Platform/Products

Set common business target

Focus on common target

Data & Data Quality

Data Governance

Modeling: NE, Link, Topo, Know how

Build Digital Twins of network

Power of Cloud

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Looking forward, Move forward…

NFC SDN RAN

AI Powered

Digital GTS Platform

AI Enabled

Inject power of AI into operations, Enable:

1) All Cloud transformation for carriers

2) Digitization for verticals

Constant reinvention for

Proactive, Predictive, Preventive

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