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Research and Markets: Global NEPs' Automation and SON Solutions Report 2014: Review of Vendor Solutions and CSP Strategies
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/4fsl23/neps_automation)
has announced the addition of the "NEPs'
Automation and SON Solutions: Review of Vendor Solutions and CSP
Strategies" report to their offering.
Automation of network planning and optimisation (NPO) processes and
self-organised network (SON) deployments bring several business benefits
to communications service providers (CSPs), and will be an essential
prerequisite for operating efficient heterogeneous networks (HetNets).
CSP (News - Alert) mobile networks and services are becoming more complex, requiring
advanced optimisation techniques. This report discusses network
equipment providers' (NEPs)' SON solutions and the transition path that
CSPs should follow to enable increased levels of automation for HetNets.
This report:
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Analyses the evolution of tools, solutions and services NEPs provide
for NPO for the new customer and service requirements and for network
architecture like HetNets
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Provides a 5-year forecast of NPO software and service revenue, and of
SON software and service revenue
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Examines how NPO systems can interact with policy and analytics
systems for maximum benefits
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Provides recommendations for CSPs and NEPs on NPO evolutionstrategies
for short- and long-term goals
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Examines the business environment for NEPs' NPO systems, including
market drivers and inhibitors
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Provides details of possible deployment architecture for NPO and SON
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Includes vendor profiles with descriptions of NPO tools, services and
SON features offered by NEPs.
Key Topics Covered:
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Executive summary
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Automating network planning and optimisation can greatly reduce costs
and increase revenue, but the transition is hampered by complexity
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A gradual transition to SON, linked to technology upgrades, will
enable automated NPO for HetNets to obtain maximum business benefits
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LTE (News - Alert) deployments and automation features like SON will drive growth in
NPO systems, but there have been fewer SON deployments than expected
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Recommendations
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NPO systems, tools and processes need to be simplified to enable
planning, building and real-time optimisation of complex networks
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Recommendations for CSPs
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Recommendations for NEPs
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Business environment
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Business environment for NEPs' NPO systems
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NPO systems, tools and processes need to change to support an improved
experience for high-bandwidth services on complex networks
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The emergence of SON is among the most important catalysts for change
in the NPO services market; HetNets will drive SON adoption
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Personalisation of services to increase monetisation opportunities
will significantly affect SON functions
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Big data will play a larger role in NPO service delivery, while drive
testing will play a smaller role
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SON deployment architecture can enable real-time optimisation, but
will need access to analytics data and will need integrated policy
controls
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Market drivers and inhibitors for NEPs' NPO systems and SON
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SON architecture and functionality
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SON deployment architecture can be distributed, centralised or hybrid:
CSPs will start with distributed, open-loop SON implementations
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SON releases build on Release 9 and focus on self-optimisation, while
Release 11 provides enhancements for most features
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Feature enhancements up to 3GPP Release 11 solve many specific issues
and can enable combined SON implementation over HetNets
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Vendor profiles
Companies Mentioned
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Alcatel-Lucent
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Ericsson
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Huawei (News - Alert) Technologies
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Nokia Networks
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Samsung
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ZTE
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/4fsl23/neps_automation
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