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SON delivers visibility in
manually across coniguration, inventory and certain network adjustments are diicult to track.
performance management systems. his made
SON simpliies network management while
the Radio Access Network
it diicult to identify gaps in network coverage raising the transparency of network activities.
and to proactively spot issues before impacting he 3 critical components of SON – self-
the customer experience. A fragmented RAN coniguration, self-healing and self-optimizing
Ienvironment prevents MNOs from accurately – provide MNOs with the network visibility
improving network performance because they required to improve network performance and n today’s complex multi-vendor C
lack the comprehensive insights required. SON maximize the customer experience.
heterogeneous networks (HetNets) world, it’s OLEMAN
systems enable MNOs to manage the RAN more Self-coniguration enables new cell sites to
no wonder that managing the radio access
efectively and to eiciently allocate network be easily integrated into the network with a network (RAN) is synonymous with operational by Neil Coleman, Marketing
resources in order to fully optimize its capacity. plug-and-play feature, decreases the required complexity. Gaining a holistic view of the RAN Director for Amdocs RAN
With better insight into the RAN, MNOs are level of engineer input and reduces costs. By is paramount for mobile network operators solutions (www.amdocs.com)
able to make decisions that signiicantly improve fully automating the coniguration of new nodes, (MNOs) to improve network performance
network performance and customer experiences.
SON helps MNOs maximize existing network the risk of human error is minimized to make the RAN ultra-eicient. Leveraging sotware to and enhance the customer experience. In
light of this complexity – which includes are fundamental to achieving network visibility. SON, and speciically C-SON solutions start
resources and deliver efective customer program, manage, and maintain the network interoperability issues and a lack of visibility by building a picture of the RAN. his visibility
experience improvements. In a network without enables MNOs to have accurate visibility into the across the entire network – network visibility
drives advanced automation that simpliies
a self-optimizing system, modiications to RAN and its operations.
is essential. Achieving network visibility means network management. he result is a de-
hardware and sotware are complicated to track Self-healing is an increasingly important having an all-inclusive view of the RAN so that fragmenting of the infrastructure to provide a
and manage, requiring human intervention to element in identifying and resolving issues that operational complexity can be reduced, all parts concise snapshot of what’s going on and what
minimize network downtime. While network can negatively impact the customer experience. of the network operate in sync, and problems
needs to be done.
engineers are able to gather information All areas of a cell network can display faults and are identiied and resolved before they become Historically, MNOs had a patchwork view
manually, the data is not quite transparent and
many can be easily addressed. However, the critical. Self-optimizing network (SON) solutions
of the RAN that needed to be stitched together
RAN is the most critical domain with respects
to faults. Each base station has its own coverage
area and any loss of service within a base station
will result in signiicantly degraded service and
performance. his can result in loss of revenue
and poor customer experiences leading to churn.
By having visibility of detected faults, MNOs can
address the issues while ensuring that its efects
do not impact the customer experience — while
repairs are underway.
Self-optimizing is required to ensure that
once a cell has been installed, it operates at
optimum eiciency. SON systems can analyze
the performance and change the operation of the
RAN to meet the needs of the operator and its
customers. Even though the cell may have been
automatically conigured, over time, aspects of
the network operation can change. SON provides
MNOs with the visibility required so that self-
optimizing procedures can be incorporated into
the network.
When SON systems are implemented, MNOs
can see beyond what is being reported manually
by equipment vendors and engineers. Visibility
into the RAN through SON empowers operators
to proactively ensure that network performance
and the customer experience is always at a
maximum levels.

IoT platform

revenues will grow

to €2.4 billion

worldwide in 2020

he global market for third party Internet of
hings (IoT) platforms will show solid growth in
the next few years, according to a new research
report from the analyst irm Berg Insight. Total
IoT platform revenues are forecasted to grow
at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of
32.2 percent from € 450 million in 2014 to €
2.4 billion in 2020. hird party IoT platforms
are relatively new in the market and display a
great diversity in terms of functionality and application areas. Broadly speaking, most IoT
platforms fall into one of the following three
categories: connectivity management platforms,
device management platforms and application
enablement platforms. hese platforms enable
companies and organisations to develop and
deploy IoT solutions faster and at lower cost by
ofering more standardised components that
can be shared across multiple solutions in many
industry verticals.
he world of machine-to-machine (M2M)
communication is gradually moving from vertical
single purpose solutions to multi-purpose and
collaborative applications interacting across

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