Global telecom infrastructure is under pressure from increasing service demands, operational complexity, and high-impact outages such as undersea cable cuts or recent network disruptions in Spain and Canada. These events expose critical gaps in traditional network operations; manual traffic rerouting, slow fault detection, and high resource costs. Networks today are often overprovisioned, underutilized, and incapable of responding dynamically to service disruptions or energy-saving opportunities. This Catalyst project presents a transformative solution; an AI-powered, intent-driven network architecture designed to deliver predictive, self-healing, and zero-touch operations. Building on Phase I, which introduced intent orchestration, service decomposition, and resource mapping, Phase II accelerates full-scale implementation. The system analyzes real-time traffic patterns, prioritizes services using QoS metrics, and enables natural language interactions through GenAI & LLM. By aligning with TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture (ODA), GSMA’s Open Gateway, CAMARA APIs, and 3GPP/ORAN standards, this solution also enables interoperability across OSS/BSS systems, cloud platforms, and network domains. It ensures secure, programmable access to network functions and data, supporting dynamic service orchestration and real-time visibility across ecosystems. The vision is to evolve telecom networks into intelligent, adaptive platforms that reduce cost, optimize resource usage, and meet environmental goals. Not only the project enables predictive maintenance but also empowers CSPs to offer advanced, monetizable services like intent-based Connectivity-as-a-Service (CaaS) under B2B2X models. Repositioned the CSP back to the core. Through automation, autonomous networks and AI, the Catalyst enables networks to: * 🔧🤖 Reduce Mean time between failures (MTBF) with autonomous, predictive restoration. * 📊📏 Avoid overprovisioning by aligning infrastructure growth with real demand. * 🧠⚙️ Cut OPEX through intelligent operations and zero-touch responses. * ⚡🌱 Optimize energy consumption, scaling capacity while minimizing emissions. * 🧲📦 Maximize asset utilization, treating infrastructure as an elastic resource. * 🔐🔗 Enhance integration & security, ensuring cross-domain interoperability. * 🌍📈 Increase sustainability by aligning performance with environmental KPIs. This project targets a measurable business impact: up to 80% improvement in service resilience, 50% reduction in operational time and cost, and 60% faster time-to-market. It empowers CSPs to reduce churn, elevate customer experience, and unlock new revenue with programmable, agile offerings. Ultimately, this Catalyst lays the groundwork for Level 4/5 autonomous networks. It redefines network operations; from reactive workflows to predictive, self-optimizing systems to ensure telecom networks can scale, adapt, and thrive in a future where performance, resilience, and sustainability are not optional, but essential. Let’s connect at DTW25 – Ignite in Copenhagen and meet our Catalyst team in Hall 3, Catalyst kiosk i.2.8.