Optimizing network rollout autonomously for radio access and fiber
How will the success of the solution be measured? The main benefits of our product are, firstly calculating accurate per-technology traffic forecasts (3, 6, 12, 18, 24,... months down the line) and secondly optimizing the network rollout plan to serve that future demand. To measure success of the traffic forecasts, we track deviations between our traffic forecasts and the actual traffic demanded per site and technology over a period of time. To measure the success of the rollout plan, a naive approach would focus on a comparison of the optimization algorithms, comparing the Smart CAPEX-optimized rollout plans versus rollout plans calculated by other approaches (more simplistics approaches such as Golden Sites or manual rollouts calculated by the CSP’s Network Planning teams). This has the advantage of being an objective, simple to calculate metric. This would be a typical lab measurement, and it would be a typical “engineering” approach. However, we strive to go beyond this and provide a holistic view of how successful our tool and our methodology are. We can not simply focus on the mathematical elements of the solution while ignoring the market environment, we are not operating in a vacuum: Calculating an optimized rollout for a traffic that is not there brings no benefits to the CSPs. We need, firstly, to build an accurate traffic projection, and only then we should focus on how good our optimization algorithms are. Looking at previous deployments in several countries, AI-ML Smart CAPEX unlocks CAPEX and OPEX efficiency gains of 15-20% on the new Network investments and a significant OPEX saving on the existing Network Infrastructure.
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