Transformation journey in

Operations Centers

Miikka Karhuluoma
Nokia Network Management

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Automation supports faster
5G rollout
“Digital transformation, operations
automation and 5G deployments will be
major drivers of telecoms software and
related services revenue growth.”

Telecoms software: consolidated worldwide

forecast 2018–2022
Analysys Mason, January 2019

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Before the first step: the direction we want to go

✓ Programmability ✓ From point

Ensuring that by modular assets automation to “You do not need
the network systematic to sell this idea of
delivers the automation new operations
targeted world for us, we
experiences ✓ Operate smartly & ✓ Instantiate slice have already
intelligently by management on bought it”
machine learning demand

✓ React with the

speed of change
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We are never walking on the road alone

The Development of the network management fabric “The Nokia

approach and
A fresh start with: • Partnership with new ideas
• Cloud native design, implementation, operators open new
deployment & operation opportunities
• Continuous for us to
• Industry’s leading software assets optimize the
PoC’s based on
• The power of open source use cases operations”
• IT software agility with telco
reliability

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On the “Automated
operations of the mobile
networks” highway
The current learnings:
The data Instantiation Deployment
management (20x service costs
(20x improvement) (10x
improvement) improvement)

Continuous Upgrade Zero

delivery of (30x downtime “We absolutely want this, this has
features & improvement) during been in our dreams since yesterday”
improvements upgrades

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New home for network
management in the end
of the road
• Traditional house-keeping of the
networks requires new approach

• There will be new SW centers:

• Intelligent Operations Center
• Unmanned Operations Center
• Cloud Operations Center
• Automated Operations Center
• Programmable Operations Center

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Time for demo: Transformation of NOC’s

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