Telecom Talks 2024, held on May 8 at Ravenswood Avenue in Menlo Park, was a landmark event that brought together the brightest minds and leading companies in the telecommunications industry. This year’s event focused on the theme of digital transformation, exploring how cutting-edge technologies and innovative solutions are reshaping the telecom landscape. Industry experts, analysts, technology providers, and telecom operators came together to share insights and forge new collaborations.
Key Themes and Goals of Telecom Talks
The primary goal of Telecom Talks 2024 was to address the critical challenges and opportunities in modern telecom deployments. The event aimed to provide a comprehensive understanding of how digital transformation can be achieved through advanced technologies such as AI, machine learning, and automation. Major themes included:
- Digital Transformation: Exploring how telcos are leveraging new technologies to transform their operations and services.
- AI and Automation: Discussing the role of AI and automation in enhancing operational efficiencies and service quality.
- Service Assurance: Highlighting the importance of robust service assurance solutions in managing complex, multi-domain telecom environments.
- Customer Experience: Emphasizing the need for innovative solutions to improve customer experience and satisfaction.
- Future-Proofing Telco Operations: Preparing for emerging technologies and data types while breaking down operational silos.
CloudFabrix was one of the prominent vendors who participated at Telecom Talks 2024, showcasing its AI-driven Telco Service Assurance and Automation Solution. Shailesh Manjrekar, Chief Marketing Officer at CloudFabrix, presented on how the company’s solutions enable top telcos to accelerate their digital transformation journeys.
Why Telcos are accelerating their Digital Transformation journey
Modern Telco deployments are quite complex and are currently reeling with numerous problems such as
- Lack of support for multiple domains e.g. DC/Campus/Cloud, Mobility, Optical, 5G, IP Transport, etc.
- Lack of Multi-Vendor and Multi-cloud support
- Siloed tools, no support for new data types and future-proofing
- Lack of support for build & run use cases – transformation & operations
- No support for the Persona-based Single Pane of Glass across Domains
- Lack of support of Intelligent Analytics & Automated close loop automation for operational efficiencies
- Lack of flexibility in Deployment – On-premises, Hybrid, or Cloud Native
To overcome all these hurdles Telcos need a solution which can support many new requirements and have the flexibility to build and run on the go to seamlessly improve the transformation journey.
How Top 3 Telcos are Navigating the Challenges with CloudFabrix’s AI-driven Telco Service Assurance solution
From automating routine processes to proactively detecting and resolving IT infrastructure issues our AI-driven Service Assurance and Automation Solution helps unlock the full potential of your network.
Fault Management:
Fault Management is critical in maintaining reliability and avoiding downtime of the Telco network. Some features are
- Multi-layer Visibility and Monitoring: Our multi-layer monitoring capabilities empower enterprises to track performance and health across various network layers, servers, and applications in real-time.
- Closed-loop Automation and Root Cause Analysis: AI-driven Telco Service Assurance solution helps diagnose the root cause of an incident and perform closed-loop automation to solve the incident based on the configuration.
- Prioritized Service Impact and Suppress Extraneous Alarms: AI-driven Telco Service Assurance solution helps improve the efficiency of business services by suppressing extraneous alarms that do not result in actual threats.
Performance Management:
Performance management in Telcos is critical to ensure seamless operations and reliability of the network.
- Real-time Performance Metrics and Machine-Learning Baselining: With the help of AI-driven Telco Service Assurance solution Telcos can access real-time metrics on the health and efficiency of IT infrastructure using Machine Learning Baselining and once the baseline is established the solution compares the earlier baseline to identify any changes which may impact the network in real-time.
- Anomaly and Performance Degradation Detection: AI-driven Telco Service Assurance solution continuously monitors anomalies and performance degradations and identifies trends and patterns by detecting potential changes in the network.
- Optimize Resources and Workloads: AI-driven Telco Service Assurance solution helps maximize the performance of the network using resource resource allocation and workload distribution.
Automated Root-cause and Service Impact:
Root-cause analysis and service impact mapping are essential for maintaining the reliability and performance of the Telcos infrastructure.
- Correlate Services Impact and Isolate the Underlying Infrastructure Problem: AI-driven Telco Service Assurance solution helps identify the root cause of an issue using alert & event-correlation.
- Closed-loop Fast Remediation: Once root cause is identified AI-driven Telco Service Assurance initiates corrective actions automatically by performing closed-loop remediation.
- Automatically Suppress Extraneous Alarms: AI-driven Telco Service Assurance solution suppresses irrelevant events/alerts so that only critical alerts get logged into the ITSM.
Composable Analytics:
Composable Analytics is a powerful feature within the Telco Service Assurane solution which assists users in handling complex data environments and helps IT Operations personnel gain actionable insights across diverse data sources.
- Ability to Ingest Disparate Data Sources like SNMP Traps, Syslog, gNMI, Bulkstats: Composable Analytics helps ingest a wide variety of data types from numerous sources, such as SNMP traps, Syslog messages, gNMI (gRPC Network Management Interface), Bulkstats to get actionable insights.
- Automatically Determine Baselines and Detect Anomalies using Machine Learning: Composable Analytics establishes baselines automatically for the IT environment using machine learning algorithms. Once a baseline is established, the system monitors deviations from the baseline to detect anomalies or potential issues and assists ITOps professionals in getting some actionable insights and intervening faster if any problem arises.
Single Pane of Glass, Composable Dashboards:
A Single Pane of Glass combined with composable dashboards is a powerful solution to visualize and interact with data from different sources.
- Rapid Development of Dashboards and Reports to Visualize Data Collected from All Required Sources (e.g., Devices and Controllers): Composable Dashboards assist IT Operations personnel in creating customizable dashboards and reports to visualize data from a wide range of sources, including devices and controllers to reduce the need to switch between different tools, and interfaces by streamlining workflows thereby helping improve the productivity of the IT Operations team.
Reliability, Availability, and Scalability:
Telco Service Assurance solution empowers IT Operations personnel and Network Admins to improve the reliability, availability and scalability of the IT infrastructure.
- Active-Active Solution: AI-driven Telco Service Assurance solution uses an active-active configuration to minimize downtime by ensuring multiple application instances run simultaneously in case of an infrastructure failure.
- Ability to Ingest Millions of Metrics: AI-driven Telco Service Assurance solution is capable of ingesting millions of metrics per second to process extensive amounts of data and provides valuable insights which helps maintain the performance and reliability of modern dynamic IT environments.
- Multi-Tenant, Microservices-Based Architecture for On-Premises, Hybrid, and Cloud Deployments: AI-driven Telco Service Assurance solution is built on a multi-tenant, microservices-based architecture and offers flexibility to scale individual components irrespective of their deployment models.
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Conclusion
Telecom Talks 2024 successfully brought together the telecom community to explore the future of the industry. The event underscored the importance of digital transformation, AI, and automation in driving operational efficiencies and enhancing customer experiences. CloudFabrix’s participation highlighted its leadership in telco service assurance, showcasing innovative solutions that address the complex needs of modern telecom deployments.
As the telecom industry continues to evolve, events like Telecom Talks serve as vital platforms for sharing knowledge, fostering innovation, and building collaborations. CloudFabrix remains committed to leading this transformation, helping telcos navigate the complexities of digital transformation and achieve operational excellence.
Here are some snaps from the event:
Stay tuned for more updates and insights from CloudFabrix as we continue to innovate and transform the telecommunications landscape.
