IG1218K China Telecom Best Practices for Level 4 Autonomous Cloud – Network O&M v1.0.0

China Telecom fully leverages its advantages in cloud-network integration, adhering to the principle of “network as the foundation, cloud as the core, and security as the safeguard.” By aligning with the development direction of artificial intelligence, China Telecom is accelerating the quality upgrade of new digital information infrastructure to empower AI advancement.

• Network for AI: Proactively deploying cloud-network infrastructure tailored for AI, with intelligent computing resources reaching 35 EFLOPS. The company is driving the comprehensive upgrade of data centers (DC) to AIDC, building a high-throughput, low-latency AI computing interconnect network. Key initiatives include large-scale deployment of 6.654E new optical machines, constructing a 400Gbps all-optical transmission network, and expanding 10G PON ports for gigabit optical networks to 9.29 million, achieving over 95% coverage in urban residential areas.
• AI for Network: Empowering network value enhancement through AI. Actively exploring intelligent network endogeneity, piloting smart network elements/cards in wireless networks, core networks, and metropolitan area networks. This enables real-time service quality awareness and application-level analysis, achieving intelligent identification and granular control of users and applications. By embedding self-developed large-scale AI models into production workflows, the efficiency of network fault resolution has improved by 30%, with reductions in both fault tickets and resolution time across the network. The overall AN level of cloud-network operations has reached L3.6.

This whitepaper details China Telecom’s journey, vision, four-layer, four-closed-loop architecture, AN framework, and innovative strategies for L4-stage advancement. It serves as a reference for the industry, and China Telecom is willing to collaborate with stakeholders to jointly elevate autonomous network capabilities.