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Research and Markets: Global NEPs' Automation and SON Solutions Report 2014: Review of Vendor Solutions and CSP Strategies
[December 11, 2014]

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:

  • 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
  • Provides a 5-year forecast of NPO software and service revenue, and of SON software and service revenue
  • Examines how NPO systems can interact with policy and analytics systems for maximum benefits
  • Provides recommendations for CSPs and NEPs on NPO evolutionstrategies for short- and long-term goals
  • Examines the business environment for NEPs' NPO systems, including market drivers and inhibitors
  • Provides details of possible deployment architecture for NPO and SON
  • Includes vendor profiles with descriptions of NPO tools, services and SON features offered by NEPs.



Key Topics Covered:

  1. Executive summary
  2. Automating network planning and optimisation can greatly reduce costs and increase revenue, but the transition is hampered by complexity
  3. A gradual transition to SON, linked to technology upgrades, will enable automated NPO for HetNets to obtain maximum business benefits
  4. LTE (News - Alert) deployments and automation features like SON will drive growth in NPO systems, but there have been fewer SON deployments than expected
  5. Recommendations
  6. NPO systems, tools and processes need to be simplified to enable planning, building and real-time optimisation of complex networks
  7. Recommendations for CSPs
  8. Recommendations for NEPs
  9. Business environment
  10. Business environment for NEPs' NPO systems
  11. NPO systems, tools and processes need to change to support an improved experience for high-bandwidth services on complex networks
  12. The emergence of SON is among the most important catalysts for change in the NPO services market; HetNets will drive SON adoption
  13. Personalisation of services to increase monetisation opportunities will significantly affect SON functions
  14. Big data will play a larger role in NPO service delivery, while drive testing will play a smaller role
  15. SON deployment architecture can enable real-time optimisation, but will need access to analytics data and will need integrated policy controls
  16. Market drivers and inhibitors for NEPs' NPO systems and SON
  17. SON architecture and functionality
  18. SON deployment architecture can be distributed, centralised or hybrid: CSPs will start with distributed, open-loop SON implementations
  19. SON releases build on Release 9 and focus on self-optimisation, while Release 11 provides enhancements for most features
  20. Feature enhancements up to 3GPP Release 11 solve many specific issues and can enable combined SON implementation over HetNets
  21. Vendor profiles

Companies Mentioned


  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Ericsson
  • Huawei (News - Alert) Technologies
  • Nokia Networks
  • Samsung
  • ZTE

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/4fsl23/neps_automation


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